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 ...
"California, New Mexico and Hawaii have the largest share of struggling families, at 49% each. North Dakota has the lowest at 32%."
What do you know? Leftist Utopia ain't so great.
During the Obama Administration, these problems didn’t exist.
I bet they have nice smart phones and dandy data plans.
And what percentage of those ‘households’ are single mother places?
Hmm?
How many of those 51 million households that “can’t afford” childcare are single-adult (or single-elderly) households?
While the dems want open borders and another hundred million people who will live in poverty.
This is how a nation falls: There is price inflation, but not wage inflation. It’s also what brings elderly out of retirement. A friends parents had to do that around 1980. High price inflation made their life savings and retirement effectively worth so little they had to go back to work to make ends meet.
I don’t believe the article one bit!
Yup, that is exactly what I was thinking.
So says the United Way?
Bull Cheese. They have their Beer Goggles on and are only seeing what they want to see.
[[Almost half of US families can’t afford basics like rent and food]]
wow- 150 million Americans are dead because they can’t afford to eat? Who know? Undertakers everywhere are getting rich apparently
Bet they all have cell phones and big screen TV’s
You are right....this was a United Way project and I would have doubts on how they did the survey....maybe only using highly urbanized areas.
I sat across from two “struggling single mothers” and their progeny (each with an iphone) at the all-you-can-eat buffet today at lunchtime.
Well, you cut classes in school and open your legs for any pimple faced sperminator that smiles at you, resulting in babies no one is prepared to care for, what kind of job do you expect to get? Brain surgeon? These “struggling families” alluded to are most probably single mothers who could have easily avoided single motherhood with a scintilla of responsibility—heck, they hand out free condoms and birth control in school—and illegal criminal invaders with limited language skills. Both are completely avoidable and neither gets a drop of sympathy from me. You makes your bed, go lie in it. Why should those of us who delayed instant gratification, put our shoulders to the grindstone to obtain an education and worked hard to get responsible well-paying jobs have to pay for those of you who didn’t?
This is why import tariffs are so important.
When we lowered our import tariffs, we started offshoring jobs. The net effect is that real wages stagnated and unemployment began creeping up.
We need to get the import tariffs restored so that real wages start back up.
CNN = Crap Not News
Just what I want to be told by someone named Tami Luhby. Smith and Jones are gone forever!
And $500 hair extensions, and $400/ea ghetto wheels, and $600 tattoos....
That’s the way the Democrats have always wanted it. Poor people who are dependent on the government won’t hold the government accountable for its corruption.
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