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USA: Where hard work doesn't pay off (www.oxfamamerica.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/2556280

The US is falling drastically behind OECD countries in mandating adequate wages, protections, and rights for millions of workers and their families. The wealthiest country in the world is near the bottom of every dimension of this index.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I’m living as an engineer like a factory laborer 40 years ago. I can’t afford a child on a single income

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A factory laborer 40 years ago could both feed and house their family plus send their kids to college on a single income.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I hope I can save up enough to send myself back to college…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yup. im in IT with a masters and I my janitor father owned a fully paid off house that is a mansion by its size nowadays and raised 7 kids on his single income. Meanwhile I barely get my wife and I by in our two bedroom place. Oh and don't get me wrong. Im doing incredibly well next to most of my peers (barring those who inherited or just dam lucky)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah my wife and I combined could theoretically make as much as my ex father, but he has a house. Meanwhile we’re saving in the hopes that once my wife starts working again (severe depression for years) I might be able to try for a master’s degree without it being a disastrous decision. Add in that we’re gay in a red state so we’ve got a handful of places we can comfortably live without fear of harassment and they just so happen to be the expensive ones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah my wife has a lot of medical issues and we are getting older so im just trying to figure out how we can keep going as we are and have not to bad an ending.