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Re:Can you raise a family on one income? by MuffinFlavored on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:20PM (#33991462)
What would you say the lifetime cost of raising your two children conception -> college is roughly?

https://business.time.com/2009/09/18/1-1-million-cost-to-rai...

Article from 2009 says $1.1m

> When you add it all up, it’s not uncommon for a single child to cost a normal, middle-class family something like $1.1 million, from birth through the undergrad years.

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Re:Can you raise a family on one income? by toomuchtodo on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:40PM (#33991744)
Brookings says it’s about $310k per child without including daycare or higher ed costs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879844

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Re:Can you raise a family on one income? by culopatin on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:27PM (#33993760)
That’s 50k a year from birth to 22, I don’t need to explain how this doesn’t make sense
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