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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, Insightful) by khallow on Monday May 21 2018, @10:19PM
Even if that were true, that's the standard state for humanity. We should instead consider the real question, "Is he harming someone with his selfishness?" I believe the answer would be no.
Well most people are blinded to some degree by ideology and emotion. But it doesn't all blind in the same way. So of course, their blindness doesn't cause them to see what your blindness causes you to see.
I think it's a reasonable request in these threads to forgo the phony, moral signaling and instead explain, plainly as you can and with sufficient backing - evidence or reasoning, why there is harm and what sort of behaviors would make that better. TMB's first post makes a good point. There is no end to what is considered "needed" for a poor family. No one ever came up with a serious rebuttal to that, it just all slid eventually into thread detours like this one speaking of TMB's alleged selfishness.