I honestly don’t even know how people are living. I have a son, I get paid 20/hour and work around 45 hrs a week. My wife stays home to take care of baby. I busted my ass the last 3 years and I have a house fully paid off. I don’t have any major bills besides $300/month loan for house renovations. I am too rich according to the government to be eligible for food stamp, childcare, etc. Neither me or my wife have health insurance (my job will pay 80% of just me if I want, not worth it) because even Obama care is asking for $300 a month for both of us. I live paycheck to paycheck. We have 0 luxuries. We don’t have car payments. Can’t afford to put insurance on my house. 0 savings at the moment. I can’t even put $20 a week away. Spending close to $300 every week on just food groceries. Almost half my paycheck is food for my family. The rest is normals house bills. Diapers, sanitary things. It just adds up and up. I can’t afford my beautiful wife anything nice for Mother’s Day and I feel like a failure of a man to not be able to provide for my family. She can’t find a job because all daycare centers are booked and they don’t have an available date, and we can’t afford to pay $150 a week until she find a job whenever they can take our child. I just can’t take it. My uncle just died and I had to miss a day of work and took a trip 4 hours away that I couldn’t afford. This week I had to max my credit card to get by. How are people holding on. How do people work at fast food restaurants and make it by? Have 2 kids?? Here I am, awake at 3am because I got $100 to get me to Friday , which will most likely be used to fill my car so I could get to work. The stress is killing me.