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Working Poor

bmpbmp

(310 posts) Fri Oct 4, 2019, 03:34 PM Oct 2019

Used to be the yardstick was if your Mom didn't have to work... [View all]

this is back in the 60's and 70's... your family was doing okay, and living the nuclear family's American Dream.

Today's version seems as if you're working one job, you're doing it.

Unemployment is so low because so many have two or more jobs.

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Used to be the yardstick was if your Mom didn't have to work... [View all] bmpbmp Oct 2019 OP

and procreation is down, white procreation being down has the christofascists scared. Thomas Hurt Oct 2019 #1

Yeah, "our back yard, our back yard!" bmpbmp Oct 2019 #2

And,at that same period of time, Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #3

True that! bmpbmp Oct 2019 #4

One of my early Childhood Wellstone ruled Oct 2019 #5

My mother knew down to the penny MuseRider Oct 2019 #9

There are jobs available everywhere in my city. MontanaMama Oct 2019 #6

loads of part time jobs in honolulu - min wage no retirement maybe some benefits nt msongs Oct 2019 #7

I remember one of my friends in grade school MuseRider Oct 2019 #8