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Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money (www.ft.com)

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Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I got "unemployed" during Covid and saw everyone bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job...

My state let me know they had run out of unemployment insurance several decades ago and I would get just the federal money, reduced down to the state amount, minus the state and federal tax from each check.

Yeah I got so fucked over it's still a shock that people say they legitimately came out better with more money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You should have seen my fucking face when I was on unemployment and I found out that I had to pay income tax on my unemployment checks. Like... what the fuck? Why didn't you just give me less money to begin with?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Red state?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup

Edit: well with big blue cities that pride themselves on how helpful they are despite being also bullshit panderong that don't even show up to vote in local elections.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

bragging about how awesome it was that the federal government was providing extra money and it was like working a good job…

Revolt hush money. I'm sure this was ran through a simulation at some prior time, "how can we pacify a domestic population that might reject what we're about to do to them?" Money, of course.