"Earnings Test" could wipe out entire fields including teaching, counseling, social work, & journalism

[ShazzieB]

25. Are they planning to also pay men enough to support a family on one income? 🤨

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That's what I'd like to know. Do they actually think all married women who work outside the home are doing it just for funsies? As much as I loved my career, I would have gladly taken a year or two off after my daughter was born instead of going back to work after a measly 10 weeks (all I could get off without losing income that was needed to pay the mortgage).

If they think they can force women to stay home no matter what their husband's income is, they're out of their damned minds. Living on one paycheck hasn't been a viable option for a lot of families in years. To keep up with today's rapidly rising costs, especially housing, a family either needs 2 wage earners OR one person making a much higher salary than is attainable for more than a rapidly shrinking minority.

In the supposed "golden days" of the 1950s that those morons lomg for, a man could make enough money to support a family just by working on a factory assembly line without any special skills. But now most of the factories have been deunionized, and only the executives make a comfortably livable income. Everyody else, from the laborers on the factory floor to the office drones, is making barely enough to get by. The shareholders come first, the execs are expected to keep wages as low as possible to maximize profits, and the rich continue to get richer while the poor get poorer and poorer.

In addition to facing the fact that women enjoy having careers just as men do, they need to get a clue that even women who want to stay home won't be able to do it unless a lot of things change.