As a 79-year old Baby Boomer still working full time to make ends meet, I have a lot of empathy and understanding for young people today who are struggling to get by. I have a lot of advantages in my life, but am living with a divorced niece and her three children, and I see how hard it is to make ends meet. It is indeed, "rich" coming from Trump and his toadies to call young people lazy and entitled. If my thirty-something niece and her children didn't have me, despite her going to work every day, she'd be among those like millions of other young people who have been forgotten and ignored by this administration. The story is as old as the hills--the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Thanks, John. I've contemplating becoming a paid subscriber; and since you took time to respond to me personally, I'm going to move ahead with it. I bought and have read your book "Fight," and look forward to your appearances on Morning Joe and other venues. Thanks for the great work you are doing with today's youth!
As one of the junior editors at St. Martins put it brilliantly, "Everything is made of money."
And what this piece made me realize is that the middle class kids whose immigrant forebears suffered and scraped to get by and get these kids into the middle class, now have to suffer and scrape like immigrants just to get by themselves. Why? Because our laws are built for billionaires and our economy treats everyone not a billionaire like a little lode to be mined and exhausted.
That’s rich coming from a man who inherited a fortune and wasn’t smart enough to bank at least half of it to live on the interest and has resulting to scamming American taxpayers to steal from to continue his grifting lifestyle. As people go hungry and homeless!
Is the feeling the same in states where people/Labor have won a real living wage? Like for example CA. Or do housing costs wipe on the higher base pay?
And housing is a terrible challenge for everyone. But in blue states, if there are jobs, a higher base wage applies. Is that a start or irrelevant to your findings?
As a 79-year old Baby Boomer still working full time to make ends meet, I have a lot of empathy and understanding for young people today who are struggling to get by. I have a lot of advantages in my life, but am living with a divorced niece and her three children, and I see how hard it is to make ends meet. It is indeed, "rich" coming from Trump and his toadies to call young people lazy and entitled. If my thirty-something niece and her children didn't have me, despite her going to work every day, she'd be among those like millions of other young people who have been forgotten and ignored by this administration. The story is as old as the hills--the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
so many people like you, mark, are sacrificing for their families and communities -
something that we dont talk enough about
Thanks, John. I've contemplating becoming a paid subscriber; and since you took time to respond to me personally, I'm going to move ahead with it. I bought and have read your book "Fight," and look forward to your appearances on Morning Joe and other venues. Thanks for the great work you are doing with today's youth!
As one of the junior editors at St. Martins put it brilliantly, "Everything is made of money."
And what this piece made me realize is that the middle class kids whose immigrant forebears suffered and scraped to get by and get these kids into the middle class, now have to suffer and scrape like immigrants just to get by themselves. Why? Because our laws are built for billionaires and our economy treats everyone not a billionaire like a little lode to be mined and exhausted.
That’s rich coming from a man who inherited a fortune and wasn’t smart enough to bank at least half of it to live on the interest and has resulting to scamming American taxpayers to steal from to continue his grifting lifestyle. As people go hungry and homeless!
LOL!! Watters and Leavitt have real jobs? Haha!!
Is the feeling the same in states where people/Labor have won a real living wage? Like for example CA. Or do housing costs wipe on the higher base pay?
accessibility and cost of housing in california is a major issue for gen z.
And housing is a terrible challenge for everyone. But in blue states, if there are jobs, a higher base wage applies. Is that a start or irrelevant to your findings?