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

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Household income doesn't mean you and all your roommates. If you're single and you have 3 roommates, your household is still just you for the purpose of calculating household income. If two families share a house, then each respective family has their own household income.

[–] Skasi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

So what about young adults who can't afford their own house and live with their parents or some other relatives? Are they excluded from these statistics? Do they count as a household consisting of only one person? Are they completely ignored in this statistics?

The PDF itself doesn't specify these things. Nor does it confirm your claim. Maybe some of the data referred to in the many footnotes does. Wikipedia and Google results didn't really answer those questions either, they only confirmed that there are many different ways to model a household.

[–] tomalley8342@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're single and you have 3 roommates, your household is still just you for the purpose of calculating household income.

Where did you hear this brother?

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-documentation/subject-definitions.html#household

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.

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the census, perhaps. Not for tax purposes.

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's adding to the confusion and seems like a weird gotcha, we're talking about the census as the person posted above as a source. The people who are confused and wrong seem to be stuck on tax filing status for some reason, I'm hoping obfuscation isn't the goal.

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where did anyone get the idea that the statistic cited in the OP comes from the census?

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...I'm going to lean on the side of this being trolling unless you're just lost or not following the full conversation. We are in a comment chain discussing what friend_of_satan@lemmy.world replied to OP with. No one is implying the OP image is census data, people are using the census data to dispute the OP image's claims. I feel breaking it down further is redundant since you can just scroll back up and read all the replies.

[–] horsey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

For some reason I’ve been accused of being a troll and being deluded because I said it makes more sense to define household the way the IRS does, and I was told no, it’s about the census. At this point my interpretation is no of here really has a clue what they’re taking about at all. Thanks for the sideways insults though.

[–] Skasi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that, it really helps clearing things up!