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http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/17/news/economy/us-middle-class-basics-study/index.html
"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: 2) by Oakenshield on Monday May 21 2018, @02:44PM (3 children)
I had a TomTom and gave it to my daughter when she was going cross country. Unless you have "free" map updates, it goes out of date fairly quickly. Besides, I actually use Waze for the police reports.
(Score: 1) by suburbanitemediocrity on Tuesday May 22 2018, @02:03AM (2 children)
My 8 year old never updated GPS has only been wrong, maybe 3 times and I've done a couple dozen cross country trips (3/4 corners and both coasts)and nothing that I couldn't figure out myself with a few seconds of critical thinking skills, eg, don't turn down the oneway street. That was Seattle. The other one I remember was a missing road in Nebraska, but I was going the right direction and it sorted itself out in an hour.
They don't build roads that fast and I don't see where it "goes out of date fairly quickly." Up until ten years ago, people used paper maps and billions upon billions of successful trips have been made. Talk about missing, outdated information.
(Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Tuesday May 22 2018, @02:35PM (1 child)
I guess they aren't building (or renaming streets) very fast near you. When I started having frequent trouble entering "non-existent" addresses which Google had no trouble finding, I dropped my TomTom in a drawer. The subscription cost to update maps was close to what I paid in the first place. I gave it to my daughter because although she primarily used her phone for maps, she anticipated lots of places on the road where she would have no cell coverage.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 24 2018, @02:27AM
Welcome to most of the US.