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Half of America Makes Less Than 35k (lemmy.world)

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[–] friend_of_satan 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Fantastic points! I totally missed that household part of it and I agree that judging based off household is a really distorted view of individual financial position.

Do you have data on individual incomes?

[–] Skasi 5 points 7 months ago

I don't have any data. My goal was not to provide data but to call out the absurdness of creating statistics for abstract things like household incomes.

[–] go_go_gadget 3 points 7 months ago

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To think of household income, think of how you file taxes. You don't claim roommates in your taxes, theyre not your household. If you and a significant other file jointly, that's your household.

The stat isn't as ridiculous as the other person claims

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

[email protected] posted the definitions used in the census survey above

A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated people, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit such as partners or roomers, is also counted as a household.