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re: 66% of American workers are worse off financially than a year ago

Posted on 10/19/22 at 9:59 am to
Posted by TGFN57
Telluride
Member since Jan 2010
6975 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 9:59 am to
I'm retired so I watch my investments carefully. You have to make adjustments to roll with what the current economy is doing. So far this year I am doing pretty well.
Posted by Doctor Strangelove
Member since Feb 2018
2971 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:02 am to
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I'm in a semi recession-proof career


quote:

I’m unemployed


Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119845 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:03 am to
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66% of American workers are worse off financially than a year ago


How could you not be unless you are a professional sports player or a CEO?
Posted by A Menace to Sobriety
Member since Jun 2018
29355 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:04 am to
Thank mentally gone Brandon and his dog shite policies for this.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119845 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:06 am to
Depends on your definition of worse off though.

I am not making less money (yet), but our company isn't giving COLA or any kind of increase (although we just hired a couple of more executives), and more and more of the healthcare cost is passed to the employee and has been for 5 years now, so my paycheck is less.
Posted by GusMcRae
Deep in the heart...
Member since Oct 2008
3261 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:08 am to
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We've spent five years in Boise, and if we've only learned one thing it's that if you want something of value, you have to give something of value. Nothing will ever be free. We'd like a low house payment, we give up the nice growing city with the new Micron manufacturing facility and great parks system. We will deal with everything that comes with the house and save a whole hell of a lot more money in the meantime.


Well that’s at least 3 posters here who live in Boise.
Posted by BluegrassBelle
RIP Hefty Lefty - 1981-2019
Member since Nov 2010
99738 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:11 am to
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I'm in a semi recession-proof career, and my wife still has unlimited OT.


I'd be really nervous about depending on my wife's unlimited OT in order to make ends meet since that's not guaranteed income.
Posted by boxcarbarney
Above all things, be a man
Member since Jul 2007
22854 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:17 am to
Remember in the halcyon days of 2016, when we elected a man to reform our failing system? He was called Hitler for his efforts, then impeached twice.

Then he was such a threat to our so-called Democracy that he was banned from all social media.

And the people who called him Hitler still seem more interested in him to this day than the guy who they replaced him with.

And it has become apparent that this Democracy that he was such a threat to neither improves our lives nor provides us with a political voice to stop our quality of life from degrading.
This post was edited on 10/19/22 at 5:07 pm
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
Member since Aug 2017
15097 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:24 am to
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66% of American workers are worse off financially than a year ago


Bidens America
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
54230 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:28 am to
I want to meet the 34% who aren’t worse off. Maybe they can give a fellow worker some financial advice.
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
7393 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:48 am to
I see how that seems funny, but I'm unemployed by choice. I took 18 credits of 3-400 level classes last Spring while I worked full-time before graduating in May. I then left my job for another that I hated. We decided we were moving a couple months ago and I felt burnt out. We had enough savings for me to stop working and remain unemployed until we move.

I have a job interview the literal day after we arrive in our new town.
Posted by Odysseus32
Member since Dec 2009
7393 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:50 am to
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I'd be really nervous about depending on my wife's unlimited OT in order to make ends meet since that's not guaranteed income.


I would be too.

Fortunately, we don't rely on her unlimited OT. It just allows us to save more money.

We try not to spend more money than one of us can make regular time. Our monthly expenses, even with inflation and our rent, hover around $3700.
Posted by USMCguy121
Northshore
Member since Aug 2021
6332 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:56 am to
jesus fricking christ @ that gif.


it's so much worse when you actually see the joe biden arse clown in action vs. just hearing about him being a retard and doing retard shite.
Posted by RibsandWhiskey
Metry
Member since Aug 2011
653 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:07 pm to
Posted by TeaParty
Member since May 2022
935 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:32 pm to
66 % Seems low.
Posted by mikelbr
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
47580 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:34 pm to
I canceled Netflix and Planet Fitness this week. I'm in that group.

Posted by EZE Tiger Fan
Member since Jul 2004
50532 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:35 pm to
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it's so much worse when you actually see the joe biden arse clown in action vs. just hearing about him being a retard and doing retard shite.


And the MSM, along with his groomer voting base, will tell you that he is all there, and his mental state is fine.

Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
135178 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:35 pm to
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Make that 100%

Inflation made all our money worth less

And their plan to fix it is to print more money and increase government spending
Posted by SouthernChick
Member since Jun 2013
402 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:46 pm to
I received a 35% pay raise in June and I can't tell it even happened. I thought I'd be able to at least save more, but sadly that won't happen anytime soon.
Posted by Eurocat
Member since Apr 2004
15089 posts
Posted on 10/19/22 at 2:25 pm to
I paid off all my loans during covid and right after it. I did not buy a new car or anything like that. I have not taken any vacation apart from brief car trips for three years.

My neighbors, who never saw a new car or trinket they could not do without just splurged (and took a cruise).

Now I have money, they do not and I bet you anything they are complaining now about their difficult circumstances.

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