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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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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 0 points 4 months ago (1 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.

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 0 points 4 months 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.