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"Nearly 51 million households don't earn enough to afford a monthly budget that includes housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone, according to a study released Thursday by the United Way ALICE Project. That's 43% of households in the United States."
The figure includes the 16.1 million households living in poverty, as well as the 34.7 million families that the United Way has dubbed ALICE -- Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed. This group makes less than what's needed "to survive in the modern economy."
"Despite seemingly positive economic signs, the ALICE data shows that financial hardship is still a pervasive problem," said Stephanie Hoopes, the project's director.
California, New Mexico and Hawaii have the largest share of struggling families, at 49% each. North Dakota has the lowest at 32%.
Many of these folks are the nation's child care workers, home health aides, office assistants and store clerks, who work low-paying jobs and have little savings, the study noted. Some 66% of jobs in the US pay less than $20 an hour.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Monday May 21 2018, @10:21AM (4 children)
Good news, everyone! We're equalizing!
Suicide Rates Climb In U.S., Especially Among Adolescent Girls [npr.org]
Youth Suicidal Behavior Is on the Rise, Especially Among Girls [wsj.com]
bonus [bbc.com]
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 21 2018, @10:44AM
A resounding "success" for the equality crew, if they keep going this way they'll put Stalin to shame. Do you have any statistics showing increases in equality between the sexes wrt workplace fatalities?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by PiMuNu on Monday May 21 2018, @11:20AM (2 children)
I understand that there is a correlation, but what's your evidence that equality (esp employment equality) causes suicide among teenage girls?
Let me make a counter-argument, adolescent girls have not entered employment so the suggestion that female employment is causing suicide is very hard to support. There is a weak argument for increased academic stress. It's a bit weak though.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday May 21 2018, @02:12PM
"Equality" is just a remark for AC. My only point is that the suicide gap between young males and females may be on track to disappear.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by DECbot on Monday May 21 2018, @06:53PM
I believe the gp is diverging from suicide studies to workplace fatalities to illustrate how gender equality is progressing. He is assuming that (1) work place fatalities are dominated by men, (2) you're more likely to be a victim of a workplace fatality if you work a dangerous job, and therefore (3) men doing the majority of the dangerous jobs. I'm not going to bother google to ferret out the studies to prove or disprove these assumptions, but since I believe in gender equality at the workplace, more women should become victims of workplace fatalities. Perhaps the receptionist's desk phone could be wired to run 40A, 3-phase 460V to the headset?
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