Author: Olivia

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/momma-cant-protect-dave-ramsey-110000358.html

The answer is they are living at home because they literally can’t afford rent and utilities on their own even working full time, and it turns out that buying clothes or make up once a month is cheaper than rent, this is shocking news to me /s

I've written this elsewhere on reddit but I want more people to see it. It's a mathematic breakdown of how wages and rent in the past compare to now. In 1970 the minimum wage and median rental costs were $1.60 an hour and $108 a month respectively. That means you could afford a median cost apartment (realistically an okay, 2-bedroom apartment) working just 17 hours a week flipping burgers at Mc D's. In 2022 the federal minimum wage was $7.25 an hour and the median rental cost was $1,545 a month. You'd have to work more than full-time (54 hours a week) flipping hamburgers in order to afford that same apartment. However, the cost of everything else like food and gas and electricity and education has also gone up in that time. Things are different now and what nobody wants to say is that a lot of younger people are…

I did bills since September just to find out what is wrong. Groceries alone. I'm spending 20 a day on living,no car payment. Not including housing and utilities. This life is fuckin impossible. I never go out to eat or drink, not even McDonald's. Haven't been on a date even since 2016. Been at my job for 20yrs. Good luck everyone.