#us economics

[horizon-verizon]

Nothing disgust me more than seeing liberals lauding Biden’s domestic policy (except their bloodthirsty hatred for Palestinians suffering from genocide).

I work two jobs and I’m currently trying to find a third job to cover the recent $300 monthly rent increase to my apartment. I work days as a barista, but it’s been difficult to get enough hours even with taking extra shifts whenever I can due to scheduling cuts as part of the crackdown on union organizing by management.

At night, I works at a convenience store because the hours are reliable, and works six days a week, often 19 hours a day. I’m exhausted all the time. On the one day I have off a week, I donate plasma for extra money. I’m literally selling my blood to eat because I have no choice. Many places around me still only offer Nebraska minimum wage, which is $9 an hour and you can hardly even buy food with that amount. Over the past three years, I struggled with homelessness, and was previously fired from my job for sleeping in my car behind my place of employment.

My sister suffers from epilepsy and can’t work full-time hours because of it. Even with insurance, her medication is extremely expensive and I spends about half of a two-week paycheck to cover the health insurance premiums. After working 70-hour weeks, my mom left her full-time job due to burnout, but still works two jobs and limiting her work hours to no more than 55 hours a week.

All of my friends and family work multiple jobs as well, just trying to keep our heads above water. Nothing is affordable and the roadblocks set up to keep people in the cycle of poverty benefit the most wealthy members of our society. Everyone is in debt and it’s looking like we will never pay it off, ever. We aren’t living, we’re barely surviving and we have no choice but to keep doing it. It’s kind of like, how much of your soul are you willing to sell in order to be financially independent or to make sure that you can eat & pay your bills.

I can't even get a part time job to fully pay my part of rent out here. You go to school (college) to get a degree only to find out that connections matter more than ever and employers actually want more skills than degrees. It's crazier than it was 10 years ago and I'm supposed to vote for Biden again. I wish I hadn't fallen for the rhetoric before...

#ask #not asoiaf #joe biden #us politics #us citizens #us economics

[the-pithy-aaaaah]

I think there's culturally an assumption that if you work in an office you're salaried and middle class. Which is a weird assumption to make about secretaries specifically considering the whole history of that position, but also more generally. There's people who are hourly in office jobs. I was hourly in a law firm. And there are people working in offices hourly or salary that do not get paid 30k a year (which for some reason is the marker for middle class for a single person in the US even though I don't know of a place in the country where that's a living wage) without working a lot of overtime. You can be poor in an office job.

#labor rights #middle class america #us economics

[ausetkmt]

Poverty, Politics and Profit (full documentary) | FRONTLINE - YouTube

Many people have no idea why there is such a huge wealth gap in america. This gives us a brief peek into the reality of classism and financial disinfranchisement.

This is not a game, and we as people who are victimized by this scheme have asked until we are blue in the face. Now we get a look behind the financial curtain. We are not locked out - we are PLANNED OUT

Today we help you understand why the dollar is worth less in the hands of POC. There is a lot of money circulating but it's not being directed to your circles; Find out Why by Watching this

#US Economics #Poverty #Politics and Profit #racial poverty gap #financial disinfranchisement #economics #us economic schemes #Poverty Politics and Profit #corporate crime #financial crime

[the-psudo]

Lots of good economic information, especially about the black community.

#amplify #black voices #Bidenomics #economics #economy #us economics

[thistlecrimes]

Things I've learned from getting covid for the first time in 2023

I wear an N95 in public spaces and I've managed to dodge it for a long time, but I finally got covid for the first time (to my knowledge) in mid-late November 2023. It was a weird experience especially because I feel like it used to be something everyone was talking about and sharing info on, so getting it for the first time now (when people generally seem averse to talking about covid) I found I needed to seek out a lot of info because I wasn't sure what to do. I put so much effort into prevention, I knew less about what to do when you have it. I'm experiencing a rebound right now so I'm currently isolating. So, I'm making a post in the hopes that if you get covid (it's pretty goddamn hard to avoid right now) this info will be helpful for you. It's a couple things I already knew and several things I learned. One part of it is based on my experience in Minnesota but some other states may have similar programs.

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The World Health Organization states you should isolate for 10 days from first having symptoms plus 3 days after the end of symptoms.

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At the time of my writing this post, in Minnesota, we have a test to treat program where you can call, report the result of your rapid test (no photo necessary) and be prescribed paxlovid over the phone to pick up from your pharmacy or have delivered to you. It is free and you do not need to have insurance. I found it by googling "Minnesota Test to Treat Covid"

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Paxlovid decreases the risk of hospitalization and death, but it's also been shown to decrease the risk of Long Covid. Long Covid can occur even from mild or asymptomatic infections.

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Covid rebound commonly occurs 2-8 days after apparent recovery. While many people associate Paxlovid with covid rebound, researchers say there is no strong evidence that Paxlovid causes covid rebound, and rebounds occur in infections that were not treated with Paxlovid as well. I knew rebounds could happen but did not know it could take 8 days. I had mine on day 7 and was completely surprised by it.

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If you start experiencing new symptoms or test positive again, the CDC states that you should start your isolation period again at day zero. Covid rebound is still contagious. Personally I'd suggest wearing a high quality respirator around folks for an additional 8-9 days after you start to test negative in case of a rebound.

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Positive results on a rapid test can be very faint, but even a very faint line is positive result. Make sure to look at your rapid test result under strong lighting. Also, false negatives are not uncommon. If you have symptoms but test negative taking multiple tests and trying different brands if you have them are not bad ideas. My ihealth tests picked up my covid, my binax now tests did not.

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EDIT: I'd highly suggest spending time with friends online if you can, I previously had a link to the NAMI warmline directory in this post but I've since been informed that NAMI is very much funded by pharmaceutical companies and lobbies for policies that take autonomy away from disabled folks, so I've taken that off of here! Sorry, I had no idea, the People's CDC listed them as a resource so I just assumed they were legit! Feel free to reply/reblog this with other warmlines/support resources if you know of them! And please reblog this version!

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I know that there is so much we can't control as individuals right now, and that's frightening. All we can do is try our best to reduce harm and to care for each other. I hope this info will be able to help folks.

#covid #covid 19 #harm reduction #apparently only 16% of Americans even got their booster #it's wild out there #which makes sense because our public health messaging has been super unhelpful and intentionally shifted the burden #of infection control onto individuals to avoid us holding them accountable because it's politically and economically inconvenient to them

[catchymemes]

#funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #tweet #twitter #adulthood #facts #politics #us politics #economics #economy

[hussyknee]

People seem to think this is fake because it's written in English. Apart from the racism in believing that Arab doctors and nurses aren't fluent in English (a second or official language for half of Asia), Palestinians have deliberately been addressing their audience in English on every social media, from journalists to children, because they know speaking English to Westerners immediately makes people more human in their eyes. Because language is one of the ways the imperial cultural hegemony conditions us (yes, everyone in the world) to see who qualifies as "people" and who are simply a mass of bodies who were always made to suffer and die. Gazans know this deeply, which is why they have been using English to beg and plead through social media, "We're not numbers! We're not numbers! We're people like you, we speak your language, we deserve to live!" all the while they're systematically slaughtered.

Israeli forces also encircled Al Shifa Hospital yesterday and bombed it for several hours while shooting dead anyone trying to flee including medical staff moving between buildings. Not sure whether it's still continuing because WHO lost all communications with its staff there a few hours after. The last new report said that thirty-nine babies had been removed from the incubators before the power went out. It's extremely unlikely they will survive.

Please understand that these atrocities depend on the war of attrition between governments and public attention. The momentum of public outcry is difficult to sustain through repeated stonewalling and bureaucratic intractability. When we're flooded with these reports and a sense of futility and despair replaces the anger, it allows compassion fatigue to set in and the violence to become normalized. Massacring hospitals, killing sick children and openly targeting humanitarian aid workers (Netanyahu just declared the UNRWA is in league with Hamas) will become simply more news articles that fade into the background, and open genocides will soon become part of the "lesser evil".

Take care of yourselves how you can, take distance where needed, but please never tune out and give up on the two million people for whom we are the only witness and hope. Never stop boosting and sharing the news and posts you find, never stop getting out there and joining every protest you can, however small. Anger burns out, which is why activism must depend on an immovable sense of justice and uncompromising value for human life. It's not just about Gaza, it's about the kind of evil our generation will be coerced into accepting as unchangeable and inevitable hereafter.

#but also like it's a lot about us and especially you in the West #every bomb dropped on Gaza brings us closer to the brink of‚ if not a world war‚ an eruption of regional conflict #with devastating economic and environmental effects across the world #I'm tired of repeating this and my followers are prob tired of seeing it #but someone has to #war of attrition like I said #free Palestine #tw child murder #tw child death #tw baby killing #tw ableism #disability justice #war crimes #gaza genocide #save gaza #gaza under attack #palestinian genocide #israel is a terrorist state #knee of huss

[lesbiangummybearmafia]

Money is the root of all evil in our world. I know we've all been taught the complete opposite especially if you were raised in the US where capitalism is king but it's a lie. The free market is bullshit. And of course trickle down economics is basically the rich people pissing on everyone else and doesn't work.

Now if find any of this shocking or you feel like a cat that's been pet in wrong direction. Just take a deep breath and think for a minute or an hour or longer.

You'll come to understand almost every companies, corporation, country's and fuck church's bottom line is money. People don't stand a chance.

If you're live in the US answer me this question, how many of the places we all live in still look like it's 1995 up in that bitch? 🤚 I know the city I live in does, why is that you might ask... because the city council here doesn't want to spend the money on even basic infrastructure that would update the place. Let alone do any projects that would beautify the city. Now I love my city but it's sad it still looks so sad 23 years into the new millennium. That seems to a running theme in alot of the US.

Whenever that change in mind set from people mattering to money mattering more happened it destroyed our world. I think it's also huge factor in the environment crisis. When money is only thing people care about what does the planet we live on matter.

Now I know this may seem radical, well maybe not to y'all on Tumblr. I really do wish we could go back to the barter system and volunteering. Or how ever Star Trek does it. A system where money of any kind went away. For all kinds of reasons. But for me the biggest one is the wealth gap, 1% of world's population shouldn't have 99% of the wealth! People no matter their race, age, where we live, health or anything else should or shouldn't have a good quality of life based on the amount of money we do or do not have. Its insane to me, the older I've become the more insane it's become!

This idea of the American dream is bullshit, no one should have work their fingers to bone because that's what for most people "working hard" means to have a better life! It shouldn't have to be that fucking difficult.

So in conclusion... Money Is The Root Of All Evil!

#money's the root of all in the world #free market is bullshit #trickle down economics is just rich people pissing on us #american dream is bullshit #no one should have to work that fucking hard #1% shouldn't have 99% of the wealth #wealth gap is evil #money needs to go #needs to be like star trek #us economics #money #world economics #money = evil

[theunvanquishedzims]

Character concept: kindly old mentor figure who is scouring the land in search of The Chosen One to pull the sword from the stone. They find the kid destined to be king, whisk them away on a magical adventure full of lessons like "be a good sport" and "always see the best in people," and guide them to the stone.

The child pulls the sword out and immediately gets knifed in the ribs by their mentor, who takes the sword, hides the body, and gets declared the rightful king.

#fantasy #d&d #the sword in the stone #he's been learning swordsmanship and statescraft for decades #he's not gonna let some trumped-up 11-year-old who got blessed by a fairy at birth run a kingdom #doesn't matter how noble and pure of heart the kid is he's an illiterate peasant who's never left his village #what does he know about economics and continental politics? #kid didn't even know how to use a fork

[froody]

Domestic science/home economics are such important fields to be taught in school. Everyone should know food safety, how to cook basic meals, do basic mending to clothing, budget a household, do laundry + understand clothing tags, clean a house etc. It is such an important foundation for life and something many kids never get and that’s not their fault. So many young adults move out on their own and have no clue how to take care of themselves because they were never taught how. I honestly believe it needs to be a core class for all students and especially male students.

#I am still using things I learned in home economics every day #algebra 2? no.

[phenakistoskope]

remember, the inauguration of the ram temple isn't a mere matter of hindu religious grandstanding, it is also an event to signal investment opportunities for the further development of the neoliberal economy.

sure, the official story says that the temple was built from donations gathered from hindus and inexplicable well-wishers across the economic spectrum (the fundraising for this was notably, extremely threatening), but this is most likely a smokescreen for a complicated series of economic maneuvers carried out by the bjp, rss, vhp, and allied organisations.

we already know that the temple itself was built by the multi-national construction agency larsen and toubro, which really lays precedent for the exact form of investment this “development project” and its peripheral projects seek funding from, and to whom the profits accrued will go.

#i will look into this more when i have time #sorry for using the economic times as a source #phenakistoskope.txt

[starwarsrefs]

America's shrinking middle class is 'barely keeping up'

"The shrinking middle class: A look at upper-income, middle-income, and lower-income households in the U.S. since 1970. (Chart: Pew Research Center)"

#income #income inequality #racism #structural racism #reaganomics #poverty #inequality #middle class #wealth #economics #us economics #us politics

[the-psudo]

353,000 new jobs created in Jan 2024. Source: BLS

Fox News panel is shocked, "I had to double-check." You can see a video clip here: https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1753449224216187125

#uspol #us politics #american politics #Biden's America #us economics

[ladyvaderpixetc]

Jon Stewart, hitting the nail on the head once again.

#gacked from Jessica Chastain's tweet #jon stewart #on the ridiculous lies regarding #trickle down economics #and billionaires hoarding wealth to play with #abolish billionaires #us politics #but also kind of #uk politics #hell it's #world politics #billionaires and privatisation are a global threat

[catchymemes]

#funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #politics #us politics #economy #economics

[sevens-evan]

you guys know the houthis are antisemitic right? like in between all of the larp posting about the glorious resistance or whatever you guys know that they’re a far right religious extremist group that is extremely antisemitic? you guys do know that? right? not everyone who hates america is automatically a good guy?

#evan says shit #i have not read enough abt their blockade to speak to that and i’m sure that the us’s bombing will kill a lot of innocent people #to protect our economic and geopolitical interests #i’m not defending biden or whatever #but like. hello. their flag says ‘a curse upon the jews’ on it.