In med school, I took an elective called "Stress". foolishly thinking i was going to learn about meditation and yoga. Instead the professor spent 12 weeks proving that being poor or a minority literally destroys your health on a molecular level, and I think about that every day.
My son works full time here in Florida. Let me run his numbers.
State minimum wage is $14/hour. He's at $15.
40 hours a week = $600/week
That's about $2,600/month before taxes.
Florida has no state income tax the thing they sell you on. So after federal and FICA he takes home roughly $2,200.
Average one-bedroom in our area runs about $1,600.
That's 73% of his entire paycheck gone to rent before he eats a single meal.
Leaves him around $600 a month for:
- groceries
- gas
- car insurance
- health insurance
- phone
- emergencies
- savings
Car insurance alone eats a third of that in this state.
He works 40 hours a week and cannot save a dollar. Not because he's careless because there's nothing left to be careless with.
I spent thirty years paying off a house here. He's doing the same job I did at his age and he can't afford a one-bedroom.
That's not a discipline problem. That's not avocado toast.
The floor moved and nobody lowered the ceiling.
Working full time should cover a roof. In Florida it barely covers the rent on one.
#BREAKING: Talarico: “The president of the United States just said that I insulted Jesus. You wanna know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare while cutting taxes for billionaires. You know what insults Jesus? Deporting the stranger and separating babies from their mothers. You know what insults Jesus? Bombing innocent school children in #Iran and sending our brave men and women off to die in another forever war. You know what insults Jesus? Covering up the #Epstein files and then refusing to prosecute a single person in them.”😳
I want to be VERY CLEAR. Dan Patrick went *against the will of the majority of the people in this state* because a donor told him to. The people of Texas have spoken on THC and there was no desire to ban it.
We cannot have people in office who are blatantly telling us fuck you
Just to be clear... WE PAID THE FUCKING TARIFFS AND THE CORPORATIONS GOT THE REFUNDS.
If you vote Republican ever again, you're as dumb as that red hat makes you look.
i love that our generation managed to kill the stereotype that if you have tattoos, you won’t be able to find a job.
now nobody can find a job, whether you have tattoos or not.
@HgcMatt@SallyMayweather Texans voted highly in favor of keeping marijuana legal and it still gets banned, with harsher penalties than ever. It’s crazy out here…
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.
lead tampon in me while i eat my listeria meat & cyclospora riddle veggies and wash it all down with microplastic water. afterwards, i inhale wildfire smoke and listen to the serene sounds of the data center built across the street. there’s a flock cam too recording it all
My ex calls me crazy but he nearly got me fired once by calling my public facing workplace over and over and insisting he speak with me lol. Like he tried to destroy my life and I destroyed mine trying to fix his, his crazy MADE ME crazy 😭