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How tf can you not live on 20k a year...

• entee 9y ago
  When your rent is 1K or more a month, that doesn't leave much room for anything else if you live in even a moderately expensive area.
• trentlott 9y ago
  As a grad student, I currently do. Losing two paychecks, though, would make my life really unbearable. Why am I deferring the ability to save money for retirement? I'm not taking lecture classes, but my research still requires tuition. I work in lab at least 6 days a week. I teach labs for 150 students a semester for my department, and stay up until midnight writing/reviewing papers or grading. I get two weeks of vacation year, which I take over Christmas, but never the whole period because I need to get work done before teaching starts up again. Nobody would take out students loans to do this. Our take-home is typically enough to escape financial worry, but not much beyond it. If the bill passes, you'll see a lot of students drop out with masters, and schools will be left unable to offer science courses to most students.
• TheCoelacanth 9y ago
  They can, just not if they have to pay taxes on an extra $40k of income per year that they aren't actually receiving.