Whenever I catch myself not reading things completely, I remember anti-intellectualism is on the rise, literacy is in decline, and I don’t want to be a VICTIM!
The average rent in the U.S. just hit $2,000 a month.
The federal minimum wage net pay is $1,256 a month.
Let that math sink in.
Someone working full time still comes up $744 short of just paying rent.
Before food. Before utilities. Before gas. Before anything.
This isn’t laziness. This isn’t poor budgeting.
You cannot budget your way out of earning less than your rent costs.
The federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. Rent has nearly doubled in that same time.
The system isn’t broken by accident.
And until wages catch up, which could take decades, generating income outside of one hourly job isn’t optional anymore.
It’s survival.
~Casper Capital~
in this current climate I just literally cannot stand to see influencers getting loads and loads and loads of free stuff, and free trips, it’s exhausting to witness when most of america is struggling to afford gas and groceries rn but so glad they get everything for free! :)
Variety reports Justin Bieber reached out to several record labels, including Billie eilish as and Olivia Rodrigo’s
“Justin is very protective of Billie and recently started looking out for Olivia. He is very quiet but definitely makes phone calls behind closed doors. The legal team and connections JB has are very well known in the industry.”
I’m sorry you’re just not going to convince me this is bad lol. This is the definition of full-circle. Look at how far doing covers in his living room as a child took him.
Meryl Streep says that Anne Hathaway told ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2’ producers that “alarmingly thin” supermodels should not appear in the movie.
“I was struck by how not only beautiful and young — everyone seems young to me — but alarmingly thin the models were [at the Milan Fashion Week]. I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too, and she made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal! She’s a stand-up girl.”
https://t.co/q7rtDWEqY5
Her house burned down, the man she loved for over a decade cheated on her, she lost her voice, and her own father walked away when she needed him most. And through it all, she kept going, holding herself together. My heart aches for her. This song was meant for her