Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago

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  • @Fuckfuckmyfuckingass
    31•4 months ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
      16•4 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•4 months ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
          3•4 months ago

          Yup

          Edit: well with big blue cities that pride themselves on how helpful they are despite being also bullshit panderong that don’t even show up to vote in local elections.

      • @GraniteM
        1•4 months ago

        You should have seen my fucking face when I was on unemployment and I found out that I had to pay income tax on my unemployment checks. Like… what the fuck? Why didn’t you just give me less money to begin with?!