America is Fucked
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- yuekit1
Millions of Americans are heading into the holidays unemployed and over $5,000 behind on rent
Nearly 12 million renters will owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities by January, Moody’s Analytics warns. Last month, 9 million renters said they were behind on rent, according to a Census Bureau survey....
Many unemployed Americans were able to delay paying rent this fall under eviction moratoriums. But those protections end soon, and landlords and utilities are eager to get paid, because they have their own bills and taxes to pay. Economists warn low-income families won’t be able to suddenly pay back three to six months of rent at once.
- They'll just have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps...no worries capitalism will be there for them when they need it most.utopian
- It's like no shit...what did people who came up with this policy think would happen? Of course a low income family isn't going to be able to pay back $6k inyuekit
- back rent, all at once or possibly ever.yuekit
- You've changed your tune Utopian. I'm glad you can see that the market will have to evolve to ensure depts are settled. It's likely there will be special and...Morning_star
- ...manageable agreements to pay the rent that's owed. There's no point in kicking these people out of their homes as the burden of 12million homeless is far...Morning_star
- ...more costly to the state and the landlords will get nothing. Capitalism finds a way.Morning_star
- What solution do you think capitalism is going to come up with Morning_star?yuekit
- "special and manageable agreements"
I like your optimism but never lived in America if you think that's gonna happen :)yuekit - You're right i'm not in the US but surely the burden of 12million homeless families at a state level is far more costly from a human and commercial than...Morning_star
- They’ll just have to sleep in their cars and work their zero hours contract jobs. Innovation never sleeps etc.PhanLo
- ...a government supported scheme to allow more manageable debt payments with support to landlords.Morning_star
- Do you think they will pass the second stimulus check before the end of the year? Neither do I...Maaku
- There won't be a stimulus bill until 1/20 and unless the Democrats get those two senate seats, Biden will have to issue an executive order.CyBrainX
- In NY, Homelessness in the city has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression with more than 57,000 homeless people as of October.PhanLo
- An all-time record of 20,210 single adults, the highest than at any other time in the history, slept in shelters; with 15,369 single men, 4,841 single women.PhanLo
- Research shows that the primary cause of homelessness, particularly among families, is lack of affordable housing. But the pandemic has seen those numbers rise.PhanLo
- Fuck landlords and banks for not dropping rent. Seriously. The city won’t come back unless all real estate prices adjust. It can’t.monospaced
- ********-4
In December 1777, the Moroccan Sultan Muhammad III included the United States in a list of countries to which Morocco’s ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose head of state publicly recognized the newly independent United States.
- These are the strangest downvotes I've seen yet.CyBrainX
- Irrelevant post. Troll account. It adds up.monospaced
- utopian4
Trump fired director of CISA last month
U.S. Treasury reportedly breached by hackers
Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies including the Treasury and Commerce departments as U.S. government officials said Sunday that they were working to identify the scope of the breach and to fix the problem.
- Seems bad12xu
- Hackers funded by a foreign govt?nb
- ^ nah, a bunch of street punks with PowerBook 100's doing it for incredible kicks.face_melter
- utopian3
Will San Francisco, New York and other big cities recover from COVID-19? What a post-vaccine city could look like.
“It’s a damn ghost town,” said Cox, 37, whose three studios have seen an 80% decline in business since the novel coronavirus hit in March. “My number one marketing tool is people walking by. If they’re not out there, you lose.”
- Watch as land and business properties are grabbed by large chain companies, further decimating communities already wankered by gentrification.face_melter
- utopian1
- business are closing in democratic cities because they don't want to pay high taxes and deal with the filth and logs of shit on the street.hotroddy
- and they are moving to texas and florida. go figurehotroddy
- Perhaps they could take a look at some cities that are better at dealing with homelessness abs learn from them.Chimp
- https://www.theguard…Chimp
- The intro is wrong, it's not like a scene from the slums of India. It's just America.PhanLo
- fooler-1
- right wing media outletdorf
- ABC is far from a right wing media outlet.utopian
- liberal media won't focus on it (as relentlessly as they do other 'injustices') as they're embarrassed they haven't been able to control ithotroddy
- KOMO news is owned by sinclair media group - nothing to do with ABCdorf
- @hotroddy What dorf said. KOMO was bought out by Sinclair in 2013. They are very fucking far from "liberal media", they are a right wing propaganda network.garbage
- https://www.youtube.…garbage
- fooler-2
- Akagiyama0
The machine, shaped like a KFC bucket, is also no slouch on the gameplay front and said to offer support for 240Hz output on 4k displays with a top-end 9th Gen Intel mobile chip inside, an ASUS RTX-supported hot-swappable mini-GPU, and two Seagate NVMe 1TB SSDs. It is apparently VR-ready and boasts ray tracing.
Its also a chicken warmer. No shit....like, really.
- _niko4
what happened to this version of America? this was what? 50 years ago? how eloquent they spoke, how brilliant and engaging the topics, maybe this exists somewhere in some far corner of media, but it's been drowned out by reality shows like the Kardashians taking a shit and talking heads on cable news channels telling us covid is a hoax and by the Grand Poobah of idiots himself, the president.
Here is Rod Serling on race:
- sted0
"It all seemed normal, no different than going to any other urgent care and everything was by the book," the woman, who got the jab almost a week ago, continued, explaining that the clinic took some medical insurances for the shot, but not hers, charging her $150 out of pocket. "But the doctor didn't ask me which box I checked on form or why I qualified for the vaccine."
- Ramanisky23
That is a stunning picture of the damage in downtown Nashville Tennessee
- “Downtown Nashville bombing suspect”... Cause obviously there’s not such thing as white American terrorists.maquito
- Checks skin tone* ... looks about whiteRamanisky2
- https://i.imgur.com/…garbage
- https://www.adl.org/…garbage
- I've read that his dad might have worked for AT&T, and then there's 5G COVID conspiracies. It seems like he was a lone wolf.garbage
- But yeah, in my book if you blow up a van you're a terrorist, not a "bombing suspect". Rest in pieces you vile fuck.garbage
- Also he did it on Christmas morning. Where are the pearl clutching "War on Christmas" types? He literally waged one.garbage
- So basically, you’re an American lone wolf and blow up a whole block: you’re a “bomber”. Otherwise: “Terrorist”?maquito
- Doesn't a terrorist have a purpose?toemaas
- Ramanisky24
Predictably Mitch “The Turtle” McConnell blocked a proposal from Bernie Sanders for a vote on the House bill on direct payments for $2,000.
- sted-1
McConnell Says No To Schumer
- drgs0
Homicide rate up 35% from the year before
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/3/213…
