Posted on 05/17/2018 9:56:10 AM PDT by fwdude
The economy may be chugging along, but many Americans are still struggling to afford a basic middle class life.
Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone, according to a study released Thursday by the United Way ALICE Project. That's 43% of households in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
That would require them to reorder their lives outside of work, which they are completely unwilling to do.
Define “struggling”. Is that like working 40 hours a week?
True. “Crumbs,” they’ll call it.
And keeping their legs closed, horrors!
Oh bull, CNN.
My tax dollars alone probably support one or two families on the dole.
...Half the Country is not Poor...
Half of the households earn below the average income.
We HAVE to do something to help them!
“We need to get the import tariffs restored so that real wages start back up.”
All that would do is make everything more expensive, because the zips will still be 10X cheaper.
I’m convinced that even if they would simply give up the multiple cases of sodas (I see this constantly with low income people in grocery lines) they’d have $50 or so more dollars a month for a better purpose, plus lose some of their disgusting back boobs.
If they delete the illegals, what’s the percentage?
“A friends parents had to do that around 1980.”
In 1980, there was double-digit inflation. That’s not the world we live in presently. The main reason today for people to delay retirement or go back to work after a brief spell of retirement is inadequate saving during their work life. Yes, some people never made enough money to put away adequate saving. For many, however, the second home, RV, boat, club membership, etc. seemed more important than prudent preparation for their retirement years.
Something tells me this will be the last chance to truly make it as demographics are not on our side. I hope to be in Montana, Wyoming or Idaho with my feet up on the front porch staring at a mountain by then.
There are two definitions missing:
What is a basic, middle-class life?
What does it mean to survive the modern economy?
Comment #1: I guess the reason why "clothing" isn't in that list, is because those 51 million people are already going naked.
Comment #2. Isn't it truly a marvel that these same millions of people are still living in houses, eating food, taking care of their kids, caring for their health,getting around, and talking on their cell phones??
Comment #3 (alternatively): Where are they talking about? Venezuela? America is Venezuela?
Comment #4. At least things are so bad here that nobody wants to come here, and everybody is trying to get out.
Perfect mani pedis and thoroughly inked up too.
“health care,”
The reason people can’t afford housing, food, child care, transportation and a cell phone.
If they have to pay for Obamacare insurance, I can believe it. I don’t know anyone especially with kids who doesn’t have to spend at least $1000 a month for the crap.
California and Hawaii are next to the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean is full of Fish that people can eat.
I’m sure New Mexico has some nice Lakes as well.
Is this the same as the new found Homeless Epidemic that didn’t exist between January 2009 and January 2017?
No kidding. Where is the follow up article on the homelessness problem?
Yeah. Hyperbolic lies are mother’s milk for NGOs and bureaucrats. Remember the “Half of all Americans have diabetes” PSAs? All bs.
Our salvation has been Moore’s law, in one form or another, applying to so many of the things we consume. When you consider that my grand parents paid $850 for a color TV back in the early 60’s, and I sold 50” sets in the early 80’s for $4k-5k.
It’s housing that is killing people.
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