• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Also also, a typical US family of mom dad kid1 kid2?

    Yeah, turns out they need to be making $140k … to just get by.

    https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

    I’ve been saying similar things as this guy for about a decade now… I’m also an econometrician, just signifcantly less pedigreed…

    Ok so yeah anyway, only about 27.5% of households, or roughly 36 million of them, make that much.

    So… just a tad more than a quarter of basically people are even capable of financially, safely, supporting a family.

    Gee I wonder why birth rates are going down.