Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
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#2In many of these cases it seems like having kids may have been an ill-advised life choice.
Having kids is always a choice not a right.
Re: Almost half of US families can't afford basics like rent and food
#3In many of these cases it seems like having kids may have been an ill-advised life choice. Having kids is always a choice not a right.
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#5If "Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone"
Is true does that mean those households do without those things? Or are they subsidized via other methods? Medicare/medicaid for health insurance for example. Such programs often have income maximums that households may be attempting to optimise for.
We often hear about millions not making a living wage but the fact that we don't have millions of corpses makes that claim less effective as it exposes it as rhetoric. Or perhaps millions are dying from exposure and malnutrition as is claimed and I can't find that data.
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#10If "Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone" Is true does that mean those households do without those things? Or are they subsidized via other methods? Medicare/medicaid for health insurance for example. Such programs often have income maximums that households may be attempting to optimise for. We o…
They end up shuffling between homelessness, homeless programs, and family / friends.
A good portion of the children pass through the foster care system and the adults end up in jail or prison for various stretches.
It's a very expensive system, and people's lives are wasted even if they are not out right killed.