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by zouhair 61 days ago
Livable wage is under threat. Week ends are the least of it. Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.
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>Millions working full time jobs can't pay their bills anymore.

Anymore? Real (inflation adjusted) wages are up for all income groups[1]. The lowest percentiles actually saw their wages grow more in relative terms than the highest.

[1] https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20260103_FBC...

America is not the only country in the World. Here in Montreal, minimum wage went up to around $15 an hour, in the same time a clean one bedroom apartment went from $600-800 to minimum $1500. I live alone and used to spend around $250 in groceries a month now it's around $600 and so on and so forth. And I am not at minimum wage. I can't even fathom how someone making $20 an hour manages to survive.

We have a huge surge of homeless people, mostly because renting one room was about $150-200 now it's around $600 for a crappy one.

People are struggling and the way you wrote that comment, you seem to have no idea as you are personally not yet a victim of the system.

Just think about how much one is struggling to turn around and burn a whole warehouse and how normal people are reacting to it.