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Re:Iowa City made its buses free. traffic cleared, and so di... by viraptor on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:47AM (#46031411)
> What makes you think so?

"In effect, more than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and one crisis away from homelessness." https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends

I don't know the commenter specifically - that's why I said statistically.

> Though it's fairly clear from context

Ah, the classic "didn't mean the well presented part of group X when I said X". That's a cliche way to mask prejudice. No, if they didn't actually mean homeless, I'm calling them out on writing "homeless".

Re:Iowa City made its buses free. traffic cleared, and so di... by eru on Monday November 24, 2025 @07:01AM (#46033153)
> "In effect, more than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and one crisis away from homelessness."

They say that, but they don't really substantiate that on the page you linked to.

Re:Iowa City made its buses free. traffic cleared, and so di... by viraptor on Monday November 24, 2025 @07:26AM (#46033367)
If only we could follow links and had some form of search for similar text to find multiple studies published on that topic...