Posted on 07/08/2016 8:29:44 PM PDT by dynachrome
Retailers have blamed the weather, slow job growth and millennials for their poor results this past year, but a new study claims that more than 20 percent of Americans are simply too poor to shop.
These 26 million Americans are juggling two to three jobs, earning just around $27,000 a year and supporting two to four children — and exist largely under the radar, according to America’s Research Group, which has been tracking consumer shopping trends since 1979.
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Middle Class isn’t covered on that and don’t get medicaid. Or anything else.
Hell, I want my hardship waiver. Oh right, I don’t get one!
Well said.
Oh we’re playing the first world problem game. Someone should have mentioned that earlier.
Wow. My dearly departed parents, my Dad a WWII vet, called themselves the “working poor.” Now my highly educated and well employed husband and me, also highly educated and working “below my level” with four kids, two of whom graduated college and working in their fields, one in college and one about to attend college, are struggling. Medical, college debt, taxes, etc. My give a damn button is stuck. I don’t give a damn about 3rd world countries or the welfare poor in this country. I’m tired of paying for everyone else.
And I was raised in a family that wouldn’t take anything from the government. How our values have shifted.
Well said.
I’m in NJ too. It sucks. Our COL is so high, taxes so high. Our affluent area (that we could barely afford to live in to begin with) is overrun with Section 8 housing type people. It’s amazing.
What race? What ethnicity?
A dive from pro life?
I like this post.
The past is not the present. It was different then.
With that reply you are seriously claiming another poster is low brow?
The entertainment tonight is overflowing lol.
Not anymore.
And the poorest middle class.
Moron. She’s grammatically correct. You’re a fuckin’ asshole. how’s that for grammar?
Moron. She’s grammatically correct. You’re a fuckin’ asshole. how’s that for grammar?
Reference bump
The US today isn't the country we grew up in. My parents families had to make ends meet during the depression. My mother picked and sold wild blueberries, cleaned houses, as the youngest of four sisters wore patched together hand-me-downs. My dad after the Army did what all guys did....worked at jobs that got him by until he found his niche. There was always a way to make enough money to get by, until "government help" and manipulations came along.
And about the US getting out of this quagmire? I don't see it.
A family of 4 with income just under $95K can still get subsidies. The older the adults are, the larger the subsidy...
I’m not that old.
I know what you are saying. A lot of jobs have been shipped out and a lot of employees are imported. These are problems that need to be fixed.
But the day you start expecting government and politicians to take care of you is the day you become their plantation slave. They will forever keep you miserable and wound up so you keep coming back to them for help.
The BLM idiots are just volunteers to be continually taken advantage of by the likes of BO and Hillary.
“LMAO Funny !!”
It’s a small pleasure, but I love it when I get to do it. :)
NJ is definitely a dying state (like neighboring NY state); American taxpayers that can get out are doing so at a rapid rate. My town is probably well over 50% Hispanic now (an unofficial “sanctuary town”), and because we are in Hudson County the county taxes really drive up the property taxes.
That Section 8 scheme is a way to foist the “takers” from the bankrupt urban cesspools on “makers” in surrounding areas so THEY are forced to provide them with money for schools, emergency responders, etc.; landlords that shied away from Section 8 tenants for decades now welcome them to cope with vacancies (due to the American evacuation) and to receive steady rent payments (since our job losses don’t impact “gibsmedats”).
Besides the changing complexion (literally) of NJ over the past 20 years, I’ve also noticed that few people bother with home repairs and maintenance if it can be avoided; nobody believes they will recoup those costs when they sell the homes due to the high cost of living coupled with the “stripmall” economy that has replaced the good jobs we had in the past...
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