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What the fuck is this? "How employers might help change that" Answer: they wont, they just might be forced to let employees give themselves a fee-free loan from their own retirement account, oh and here's a slightly different new emergency savings account. It's still all just your money...What the actual fuck?
What about the half of US workers that don't have a retirement account? I guess fuck them?
Isn't the answer simple? HIGHER WAGES.
Man, this made me incredibly angry.
Higher wages or lower costs, but lower costs would kill the stock market
And if you're in a HCOL city the municipality is probably thriving off the property taxes.
Property taxes actually need to be raised in most cities, especially for single-family homes.
Everyone in the suburbs should pay a property tax premium for that benefit, for instance, to address the externalities of having suburbs.
I just want to know what type of emergency only costs $500 anymore?
A simple blown tire that renders you only reliable way to work that doesn't pay enough to cover your basic living expenses is a catastrophic emergency that could cost around 500 bucks.
Uber to the hospital.
Emergency pizza and ice cream?
Exactly. A cheap car repair is that with labor. Add kore than one thing in a few months and most people start to really bleed.
And somehow these CEOs are still talking about pandemic money 3 years later.
My employer got $600,000 in ERC. Meanwhile, I haven't had a pay increase in over 2 years. Been with the company for over 10 years.
The $800 stimi will never be forgotten.
Nobody has any fucking money. You can't afford medical, you can't afford a house, you can barely afford a car. You can barely afford rent. Everything is more expensive. Food, gas, everything. Wages can't keep up with inflation and employers could give a shit.
And yet nothing is being set on fire.
How employers may help change that? PAY YOUR FUCKING PEOPLE MORE MONEY.
As a non American can I ask about your monthly budget? I'm really curious as to what's really going on and how much it's costing because everyone from different states are talking differently.
The US is massive and each state and city can have wildly varying costs of living and pay.
So it's a bit hard to compare someone from NYC to someone who lives in Austin Texas.
Generally on the north east coast the cost of living is high due to density and so wages/salaries tend to be higher than somewhere with a lower cost of living. As you move into the mid west and central US things tend to come back down before going up again on the west coast.
This is why predatory payday loan companies still exist.
I'm tired, boss.
The land of the fee.
I work full time for CVS and I have 26 cents in my bank account, nevermind 500. I literally cannot save, every cent is expenses. When an emergency happens I am straight up fucked every time.
An emergency happened for me in june and I was homeless by July, working fucking full time. Thank fuck I have a family I can stay with.I fucking hate this country. Literally standing in line to donate plasma for gas money. Christ.
America is kinda fucked up. Seeing it from the outside, nothing is surprising, the solutions are fairly obvious. If nothing else, the direction in which to go. Yet, it's just dumb and dumber.
You had a real shot at change with Bernie Sanders. At least one of the three pieces. At this point, you'll have a revolution within the next 5-10 years that changes the two party system, or it's lights out.
How much has the price of milk gone up in the last 4 years?
I still see LOTS of people with massive trucks, muscle cars and SUVs though.
Next time you see one of the fancy lifted "brodozer" trucks, pay attention to the tires. Often times they're in bad shape, nearly worn out.
That's because they bought this thing for $700 per month and never took into account that the fancy tires are $300+ each.
Same article from decades ago. This is nothing new, it's not gotten better, it won't get better anytime soon.
Employers could pay their employees' student loans, stop forcing them to commute, and pay them well
That's no bueno
First it was 40%, now it’s 63%