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Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
CNN ^ | May 17, 2018 | Tami Luhby

Posted on 05/17/2018 9:56:10 AM PDT by fwdude

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Notably:

"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.

1 posted on 05/17/2018 9:56:10 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

During the Obama Administration, these problems didn’t exist.


2 posted on 05/17/2018 9:58:31 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: fwdude

I bet they have nice smart phones and dandy data plans.


3 posted on 05/17/2018 9:59:27 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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And what percentage of those ‘households’ are single mother places?
Hmm?


4 posted on 05/17/2018 10:00:21 AM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: fwdude

How many of those 51 million households that “can’t afford” childcare are single-adult (or single-elderly) households?


5 posted on 05/17/2018 10:01:15 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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While the dems want open borders and another hundred million people who will live in poverty.


6 posted on 05/17/2018 10:02:05 AM PDT by sphinx
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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.


7 posted on 05/17/2018 10:02:19 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: fwdude

I don’t believe the article one bit!


8 posted on 05/17/2018 10:02:23 AM PDT by caww
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To: Rebelbase

Yup, that is exactly what I was thinking.


9 posted on 05/17/2018 10:02:25 AM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: fwdude

So says the United Way?

Bull Cheese. They have their Beer Goggles on and are only seeing what they want to see.


10 posted on 05/17/2018 10:02:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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[[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


11 posted on 05/17/2018 10:03:01 AM PDT by Bob434
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Bet they all have cell phones and big screen TV’s


12 posted on 05/17/2018 10:03:59 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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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.


13 posted on 05/17/2018 10:04:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Rebelbase

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.


14 posted on 05/17/2018 10:06:32 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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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?


15 posted on 05/17/2018 10:07:51 AM PDT by EinNYC
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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.


16 posted on 05/17/2018 10:08:53 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: fwdude

CNN = Crap Not News


17 posted on 05/17/2018 10:08:54 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: fwdude

Just what I want to be told by someone named Tami Luhby. Smith and Jones are gone forever!


18 posted on 05/17/2018 10:09:10 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Rebelbase

And $500 hair extensions, and $400/ea ghetto wheels, and $600 tattoos....


19 posted on 05/17/2018 10:10:54 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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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.


20 posted on 05/17/2018 10:11:58 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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