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Livable wage is under threat. Week ends are the least of it. Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.
by zouhair 6mo ago
Livable wage is under threat. Week ends are the least of it. Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.
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- gruez 6mo ago>Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore. Anymore? Real (inflation adjusted) wages are up for all income groups[1]. The lowest percentiles actually saw their wages grow more in relative terms than the highest. [1] https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20260103_FBC751.png https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20260103_FBC...
- zouhair 6mo agoAmerica is not the only country in the World. Here in Montreal, minimum wage went up to around $15 an hour, in the same time a clean one bedroom apartment went from $600-800 to minimum $1500. I live alone and used to spend around $250 in groceries a month now it's around $600 and so on and so forth. And I am not at minimum wage. I can't even fathom how someone making $20 an hour manages to survive. We have a huge surge of homeless people, mostly because renting one room was about $150-200 now it's around $600 for a crappy one. People are struggling and the way you wrote that comment, you seem to have no idea as you are personally not yet a victim of the system. Just think about how much one is struggling to turn around and burn a whole warehouse and how normal people are reacting to it.