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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by jasonv on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:09PM (#22980500)
Guessing the 26 million who filed for unemployment won’t be better off. Average salaries are higher than unemployment.

Not sure what the point of this oft-repeated fact is, if not to gas light the trauma out there.

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Re:Millions of credit-card customers can’t pay their bills by mberning on Saturday April 25, 2020 @03:40PM (#22980761)
Did you even read the article? After the cares act, in many states the “break even” point where unemployment income is less than your working income is 25-30 dollars an hour. That’s 50k-60k per year. Anybody making less than the median income is going to come out ahead, assuming they were legitimately employed to begin with.
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