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2026-08-18 Economy

Half Of Typical US Family's Paycheck Swallowed By Housing, Childcare

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-08-18 02:05|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [253 views ] Top

1 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/half-typical-us-familys-paycheck-swallowed-housing-childcare

Posted by Besoeker 2026-08-18 02:20|| 2026-08-18 02:20|| Front Page Top

2 https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/half-typical-us-familys-paycheck-swallowed-housing-childcare

Posted by Skidmark 2026-08-18 06:07|| 2026-08-18 06:07|| Front Page Top

3
WAIT FOR IT.
As we enter harvesting & holiday season, stop and think of the impact that just fuel prices like Diesel & Gas will have on our food & CYA item chain.

Diesel fuel prices now on average are roughly running $5.49 a gallon, plus the cost of DEF additives.
UP in cost from the 2025 season, which was around $3.61 a gallon.
That's about a 52.07% increase for diesel added from the start, to the delivery to the end user.

GAS
In 2025, the U.S. retail price was around $3.10 a gallon for regular grade gasoline.
In 2026, the US retail average is now about $4.19+ a gallon a 35.16 % increase per gallon.

Question: Did your net income keep up with the real cost of living in the USA?

Posted by NN2N1 2026-08-18 07:20|| 2026-08-18 07:20|| Front Page Top

4 Well, Americans pays more taxes than they spend on food, clothing, and housing combined.
And how much of that is fraud and graft?

Posted by Procopius2k 2026-08-18 10:45|| 2026-08-18 10:45|| Front Page Top

5 And if you are a single income, how does that math work out?

Posted by mossomo 2026-08-18 12:49|| 2026-08-18 12:49|| Front Page Top

6 P2K nails it. If the government wasn't stealing our money and spending us into crushing debt to the tune of $40 trillion, inflation would be checked and we'd all have a lot more money for ourselves. Then you look at the things the government does with all that money and you know that you could do quite well without most of it. You'd never miss most of the things the government does and, if you did, you'd be glad they were gone.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-08-18 13:30|| 2026-08-18 13:30|| Front Page Top

7 Get on the Federal political gravy train and stay on it, you're set for life. Trump is an outlier and that's one of the reasons both sides hate him for rocking the boat and interfering in their exclusive club. And every election we vote for the lesser of two evils.

Posted by Chantry 2026-08-18 15:54|| 2026-08-18 15:54|| Front Page Top

8 I used to do mobile car detailing, we went to a lot of daycares and they had some very nice vehicles. Just saying, it's a very lucrative business evidently!

Posted by chris 2026-08-18 20:04|| 2026-08-18 20:04|| Front Page Top

9 An interesting insight, chris. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2026-08-18 23:19|| 2026-08-18 23:19|| Front Page Top

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