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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I often wonder similarly. comes down to double income. We went from families being raised on 40 hours a week labor to 100 or more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

As someone currently raosong 2 kids on a single fairly meager income, it comes down to budgeting, extreme price sensitivity and using the annual child tax credits as a cash injection to rebalance everything every 12 months and/or subsidize major needed purchases

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Glad I'm not alone in this. Tight budgeting that slowly trickles down to negative and then the tax credits come in and give us a boost to hopefully last the next year.

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