I will take one for the team and take $140k a year and report back. It’ll be hard, since it’s only 3 times what I make now, but it’s worth it for science.
no please no…rethink how your family will survive the test of this strategist’s poverty line.
where are the application papers? im signing up too we’re in this together
Bet
Makes sense. About a decade ago it was estimated around 80k. With the post-covid world the way it is I think that increase is reasonable
87.5k in SJ, california. 100k is low income there now. now theres like a reverse white flight going in bay area now. the soccer mom karens have returned. signs of gentrification is the increasing amount of CAFES in the area.
Why not a million? Fuck it, make it two. 🙄
If you were to actually read the substack the original author wrote, it’s well justified reasoning. The original poverty calculation was based on the cost of food as a percentage of income of a family that is fully participating in society. The author explains though that food is a much smaller portion of our daily expenses and that the cost of fully participating in society includes significantly more expenses. So, if we still use food as a baseline, but re-evaluate it’s percentage of expenses. The new poverty line comes out to about 130k. The author also validates this by looking at the national average expenses and indeed for a family, fully participating in society with no government support, it’s around that range. But you know, continue being snarky.
The author may be right or wrong, but at least they make a real argument. You… not so much.
Why not shut up long enough to read and create an informed view of the other parties argument
I know it takes a few seconds longer then being an illiterate dummy. But you can do it champ.
A lot depends on where you live.
