[Marie]

The first hit will be the bottom of the barrel folks....who make $7 an hour at Wal-Mart. Then later the $35k a year folks. And by next year...even the folks who make $60k a year will start to complain.

I'm a stay at home mom. I was considering getting a job to help out now that the kids are older. After figuring the tax situation out and the added fuel costs, it breaks down that we'd actually *loose* money if I went back to work.

Very depressing.

[luckystarmom]

I did some substitute teaching last year. It just wasn’t worth it after taxes.

If I went back to work full-time in my career (software engineering), it would be worth it. However, I don’t think my kids and hubby (or me) could handle me working full time.

Instead of working part-time, I think I could make more money by trying to figure out how to cut some of our expenses.