return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 months agoMost Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis findswww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up1393arrow-down13
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minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·2 months agoIt takes $44,737 for a one-person household to maintain a “minimal quality of life”? Stagnation of wages and increasing prices are causing a crisis, no doubt, but is that really the number we’re looking at for a minimum? According to this, I’ve only ever personally known (at least well enough to know their income) two people affording a ‘minimal quality of life’.
minus-squareTikiporch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoI didn’t see that value in the article. Did I miss a reference?
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agohttps://lisep.org/mql The linked report.
It takes $44,737 for a one-person household to maintain a “minimal quality of life”?
Stagnation of wages and increasing prices are causing a crisis, no doubt, but is that really the number we’re looking at for a minimum?
According to this, I’ve only ever personally known (at least well enough to know their income) two people affording a ‘minimal quality of life’.
I didn’t see that value in the article. Did I miss a reference?
https://lisep.org/mql
The linked report.
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