“earning just around $27,000 a year and supporting two to four children”
Does this include the EBT and/or other welfare programs?
I just have a VERY HARD TIME understanding WHY when your income is 27,000 a year you have 4 kids you can’t afford!!!!
All forms of welfare are not reported as income.
I fear these are people who have to take 2-3 clerk or restaurant jobs because none are full time any longer. Some reasonable amount likely refuse welfare out of pride and choose to work the jobs.
Long-term recipients don't want to work too much or they lose their benefits.
My daughter didn’t qualify for any benefits for her or her baby with that income. Take that back. They did subsidize their health insurance.
I refer to it as being "upper poor". For a retiree such as myself with no debts, I joke about the upper poor life style. It's really quite doable. But for a family? It's difficult.
These are the ones we should be praising. They're the ones who shouldn't be getting minimum wage, but because there are unending new waves of non-citizen labor, they are lucky to make more than $10 an hour.
We don't turn things around in the US until the working poor are better off than the crowd that lives off government freebees.
51% of all American wage earners make less than $30,000 a year.