return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · edit-213 hours agoIs $140,000 the New Poverty Line for Americans?www.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down110cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up58arrow-down1·13 hours ago“a family of four needs $136,500 a year” I could see that, more likely in more expensive areas. You aren’t getting anywhere in New York or San Francisco on $140K.
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoI mean, we’re poor but we make less than half that just outside San Francisco. Honestly we’re doing okay. We don’t get any of the luxuries my parents had at our age, but we have smartphones so we can never get away from anything!
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·12 hours ago in New York or San Francisco on $140K. A month?
“a family of four needs $136,500 a year”
I could see that, more likely in more expensive areas. You aren’t getting anywhere in New York or San Francisco on $140K.
I mean, we’re poor but we make less than half that just outside San Francisco. Honestly we’re doing okay. We don’t get any of the luxuries my parents had at our age, but we have smartphones so we can never get away from anything!
A month?