Re:Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common
by crankylinuxuser on Monday December 31, 2018 @11:06AM
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There is no one part here. It's what many of us (with little power) have been saying for quite some time.
1. Minimum wage and poverty level are not increasing in relation to the power of the dollar. (1) (2)
2. Welfare of all sorts have been cut since the '80s with Reagan's attack on a felony fraudster [Welfare Queen] (3) (4)
3. Zoning regulations actively kill and impede lower rents and booming cities. (5) (6)
4. Employer-linked medicine harms and kills people, via lack of medicine and through monetary lack of means. (7) (8) (9)
5. The citizens have been sold a bill of bad goods with the "Debt Sentence" of educational debt. (10) (11)
The problems are numerous, and these cards have been stacked against us. Any one of these could topple, and take out multiple areas/people/economies. And just like the Great Depression, not even the banks getting together will be able to save us. Many of these are laws that would have to be changed at the local/state/federal level, which I do not see happening in 20 years.
1. Minimum wage and poverty level are not increasing in relation to the power of the dollar. (1) (2)
2. Welfare of all sorts have been cut since the '80s with Reagan's attack on a felony fraudster [Welfare Queen] (3) (4)
3. Zoning regulations actively kill and impede lower rents and booming cities. (5) (6)
4. Employer-linked medicine harms and kills people, via lack of medicine and through monetary lack of means. (7) (8) (9)
5. The citizens have been sold a bill of bad goods with the "Debt Sentence" of educational debt. (10) (11)
The problems are numerous, and these cards have been stacked against us. Any one of these could topple, and take out multiple areas/people/economies. And just like the Great Depression, not even the banks getting together will be able to save us. Many of these are laws that would have to be changed at the local/state/federal level, which I do not see happening in 20 years.
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(1) https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-higher-the-federal-...
(2) https://talkpoverty.org/2016/09/13/poverty-rate-just-dropped...
(3) https://www.newsweek.com/trump-plans-slash-welfare-spending-...
(4) https://timeline.com/reagan-trump-healthcare-cuts-8cf64aa242...
(5) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/7/3/how-zoning-is-h...
(6) https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/05/25/modern-zo...
(7) https://www.marketplace.org/2017/06/28/health-care/how-did-w...
(8) https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/poor-healthcar...
(9) https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/05/01/this-is-the-no-1-...
(10) https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/08/27/how-u-...
(11) https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/student-loan-debt-ba...