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Half of America Makes Less Than 35k
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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Half of America makes more than that now. Though not by much.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/05/17/half-americans-make-less-35000/
It's tough because the snopes article moves between individual and household income amounts--which are two very different things. Kinda wish articles were written more clearly, and provided contextual data regarding how many households have multiple earners.
Yes. If you add up mine and all five of my roommates in our one bedroom apartment we make more than 35k lol
The landlord: and I took that personally
The rent: goes even higher for bullshit reasons
This has been driving me crazy. I try to compare the median income in the twin cities and it always provides the median household income. Why is it so difficult to find indivual median income for regions.
If half is making less, the other half is obviously making more.
Big if true.
Large if factual
Giga if brain
The article found the numbers the OP image was based on.
The $35k was rounded. Less than half make more.
Come on, it can't be half and half. Won't somebody think about the poor bastards making EXACTLY 35k?
True dat
The latest (2022) “median net compensation” from SSA is $40,847.18
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
Ah there's the evidence