Half of America Makes Less Than 35k

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Major life experiences have been stolen from a large % of the population, all to make a handful of people richer. It’s tragic.

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  • some_designer_dude@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the bright-ish side, there’s an even more tragic fate waiting for those handful of people in the coming years…

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is?

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we team up we could afford a fleet of bulldozers. Just sayin.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bruh there is enough of us we could topple buildings without bulldozers. We just can’t agree on anything in a meaningful way.

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But … Killdozers :(

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.

  www.snopes.com/…/half-americans-make-less-35000/

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts–which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.

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    • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol

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    • Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.

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    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Big if true.

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    • ninja@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.

      For 2019, according to the SSA, the median net compensation for American workers was indeed less than $35,000 — it was $34,248.45, to be precise

      The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.

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• bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My first job out of college paid $28k/year. Of course that was in the mid 80s. Almost 40 years later, half the country is making less than $7k more than that.

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  • dditty@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first teaching job out of college paid $32K/yr and that was in one of the best states for teacher salaries in the country, and this was in 2015

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• Filthmontane@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because there’s not enough unions

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• BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know a few people in the 100k range. Only a couple have kids. I think that is more than that. It’s never stopped people in the past. I think a combination of education and poverty may be part of this.

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• cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you tried voting

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• FJT@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nothing is stopping any of them from applying themselves and bettering their employment except their laziness and stupidity.

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  • TronnaRaps@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This guy is shitty, but I don’t disagree with the lazy comment. Alot of problems can be solved by not being lazy.

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• FJT@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And illegal immigrants get that for free! Thanks tax payers!

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  • deania@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Illegal immigrants deserve more then 35k. Those people are getting away from the worst places imaginable with nothing to their names

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