• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    $1400/mo, the rough figure from the article, is 30% of $56k/yr. If you made $1m, 30% of that would give you $25,000/mo. How do you figure?

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      3 months ago

      Median household is apparently 80k now. 30 percent of that monthly is 2,000.

      In my city 2,000 will rent you an infested place with water damage from the flood a year ago. But if the city comes around you have to pretend not to live there or else they’ll kick you out.

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        3 months ago

        Don’t forget that household income is everyone in the house. So if you are all poor college kids with part time jobs making 15-20k a year your household income will still be close to or at the median, even though each of you are individually really poor

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                  3 months ago

                  You’d need census data to back that up.

                  Edit to add, you’d need to see which definition the government is using because household has a census definition and an IRS definition.