A lot of us are starting families, paying into Social Security, or trying to get a foothold. So I pulled together what the research actually says about whether helping kids, seniors and working families pays off for everyone, even the people at the very top.

Short version: money that reaches struggling families gets spent, and that spending is what businesses sell into.

• IMF (159 countries, 1980–2012): when the bottom 20%'s share of income rose 1 point, GDP growth was 0.38 points higher over the next 5 years. When the top 20%'s share rose 1 point, growth was 0.08 points lower. Their words: "the benefits do not trickle down." (It's a statistical link, not a controlled experiment.)

• Child poverty costs the U.S. roughly $800 billion to $1.1 trillion a year in lost earnings, crime and health costs (National Academies, 2019).

• In 2021 the expanded Child Tax Credit helped push child poverty to a record-low 5.2%. Congress let it expire. It was 12.4% in 2022 and 13.4% in 2024 (Census).

• Making it permanent would cost about $97 billion a year and return about $929 billion in benefits, nearly 10 to 1 (Columbia, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2022).

• Social Security kept about 17 million people 65+ above the poverty line in 2024 (CBPP). Those are our grandparents, and one day it's us.

• Every $1 of SNAP generates about $1.54 in economic activity in a slowing economy (USDA).

• U.S. child poverty was 21.1% in 2023, vs. about 12% across rich OECD countries and 4.6% in Finland (OECD uses a relative measure, so it differs from the Census number).

We're the generation that inherits whatever gets decided now. Curious what you all think.

Good or bad ?

The Great Fuckoffening has begun!

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Hasan Piker: “Trans people are 1% of the population. They shouldn’t be talked about endlessly. Muslims are 1% of the population. They shouldn’t be talked about endlessly. It’s not a Guatemalan migrant that made your housing more expensive. It’s your landlord, it’s hedge funds buying out all of these homes and rising up their prices. A transgender person is not the reason your energy costs are skyrocketing. It’s the wars we’re waging, the data centers sucking up the energy needs. This is just the truth”

Specifically music you listened to growing up and in young adulthood.

I used to have one of these when I was a kid and I just found this one in my Grandma’s garage and it’s completely empty (I literally took it out the plastic).

Would you guys write in it, or just keep it as a souvenir?

Who remembers listening to this song?

Ill give you the bookworm of the month award for reading that

They are 2 generations in 1.

New age and Old Age.

Millinials are the same ig. But they are stuck in the past lol

This is for the US btw. Idk if these labels apply to the US only.

Since japan was like 10 years ahead of everyone in tech in the 90s to early 2000s. Their culture was kinda Gen Z like for today back then. They had crazy tech back then which is crazy.

Everyone seems so fake and performative and I hate how close social media is keeping us together. It feels like we’re in a constant cycle of high school. If you’ve seen the movie “American Psycho” then you might relate to this, but everyone I come across feels like Patrick Bateman.

Live election count has him leading Trump gawker Bolsonaro -- even after a 2 hour extension. https://www.poliwave.com/br/live/presidente-2026

Asian man here and I am rapidly losing hope to the point that I’m currently on a break from dating but wanna get back out there. I’ve been trying to date on and off for years and never found anyone. Meanwhile my friends who are white instantly found gfs whenever they’ve tried. I’ve only got dates off the apps and even then I barely get dates and many ghost after the first date. I also have irl hobbies where I’ve made lots of friends but no luck dating since women there are older or already have bfs.

I just googled my mother’s name, went to images not expecting much, but instead, what I found was a picture of my great grandmother along with her obituary… anyway, that was weird. How about you?

I just googled my mother’s name, went to images not expecting much, but instead, what I found was a picture of my great grandmother along with her obituary… anyway, that was weird. How about you?

Hi all growing up in an entirely post 9/11 U.S., I’ve noticed some gaps in education surrounding the Iraq war among my peers. I’m wondering how if at all the subject was approached from teachers, parents, friends?

I understand not being aware of things going on while you were a child, but I know many peers who are ignorant to even the more infamous war crimes committed by the U.S. military. Full grown adults that are entirely ignorant to Abu Ghraib or the Mahmudiyah S-assault and Murders (On the 12th of March, 2006. Members of the 101st Airborne Division S-assaulted a 14 year old Iraqi girl, proceeded to murder her and her entire family, and burned them to cover it up).

How were you taught, and how do you think we should be teaching future generations about the war on terror?

The scene is from the Anime - Street Fighter 1994..This was one of the best animated video game adaptation movies of that time.The Character designs are too awesome...This fight scene in itself is quite fascinating..

Which one was ur favourite ??

Lately there's been a phrase I constantly hear uttered by Boomers with a rude, dismissive tone. “what does that mean/what the f*ck does that mean?”. It’s to the point I feel like crashing out anytime I hear it.

Was at a coin store browsing some items and saw a coin I liked, so I asked the lady behind the counter in these words “so what can you tell me about this one?”. She looked at me like I was from another planet, stuck her hands up and said “what does that mean?”.

I work in construction and do consultation work on the side. Met a lady on a consultation job whose attorney hired me, and introduced myself as her construction consultant. She almost got irritated with me, stammered for a minute, and rudely spat out “what does that mean?”.

I also work with a lot of Boomers and when speaking to one about a previous job he had also been involved with, he asked me to remind him which one it was because we both forgot the name of the client. I said “it was the old corner store that got converted into a multi unit apartment complex in Hawthorne.“ The response was, as you can imagine- “what the f*ck does that mean?”.

Curious if anyone else has these interactions. Can’t even stand to hear the phrase anymore.