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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by ryanmccullagh on Monday June 03, 2019 @12:16AM (#20080362)
Where do you get this number, $2,392 per year? I can tell you that for me, it's way more than that.
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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by icebraining on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:19AM (#20080810)
The BLS reports an annual expenditure of $7,729/year per "consumer unit", and an average of 2.5 persons per consumer unit, so about $3,100/person/year in 2017. That number is probably a few years old.

I do wonder if this accounts for SNAP and other food expenses not directly paid with cash income.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/consumer-expenditures/2017/...

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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by ceejayoz on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:16AM (#20082760)
> I can tell you that for me, it's way more than that.

I would suspect the average HN reader tends more towards upper-middle class than the average nationally.

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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by zizee on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:25AM (#20081115)
I was quoting from the article linked to by the grandparent. I presume that article provides references?
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