95

[Passages]

95 The number of hours the average minimum-wage worker in the U.S must work (2.4 full time jobs) to afford a one-bedroom rental home at the fair market rent.

Fewer people are accessing the benefits they need, The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program served approximately one third as many households in 2020 as it did in 1996, leaving families trapped in poverty and housing insecurity.
$7387
Between 2021 and 2024, the peak annual pay gains for low income workers ($2,936) were less than half of the increases provided for the highest earners ($7,387).
https://endhomelessness.org/income-isnt-keeping-up-with-housing-costs/


The war in Iran costs America two billion dollars each day, says war budgeting expert Linda Bilmes—and will cost at least one trillion overall.
Home Faculty & Research Policy Topics International Relations & Security
April 7, 2026
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/international-relations-security/why-war-iran-so-expensive

[Prairie_Seagull]

2. Are we at the point where it will take

3 full time earners to afford one home?

[Wicked Blue]

3. You know, i wonder if the war is just a smokescreen

to cover up the looting of America.

[biophile]

4. You are right- but we can see it happening anyway

[Passages]

5. I believe you're correct.

I posted this one example, as it exemplifies the notion that we can't afford to house people, educate them, offer medical care...we just can't afford it.

But somehow, we can fund this criminally insane war.

[Bayard]

6. Of course it is

Even King Moron can see that the rethuglicans are going to get wiped out in coming elections. He's trying to grab all he can, while he can.

And there's still Epstein......