Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago
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Don’t you remember? They gave us all like $2500 or something one time. That’s enough to live on for at least a decade for the poors.
I got “unemployed” during Covid and saw everyone bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job…
My state let me know they had run out of unemployment insurance several decades ago and I would get just the federal money, reduced down to the state amount, minus the state and federal tax from each check.
Yeah I got so fucked over it’s still a shock that people say they legitimately came out better with more money.
bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job…
Revolt hush money. I’m sure this was ran through a simulation at some prior time, “how can we pacify a domestic population that might reject what we’re about to do to them?” Money, of course.