Check out these links,
The links are from Oprah’s show that aired July 28th 2006.
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060414/slide_20060414_284_102.jhtml
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060414/slide_20060414_284_101.jhtml
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060414/slide_20060414_284_205.jhtml
Two examples of a family struggling to survive:
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060414/slide_20060414_284_201.jhtml
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060414/slide_20060414_284_203.jhtml
2006-07-29 06:18:17 · 7 answers · asked by Am 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I'm talking about the USA (not other places).
2006-07-29 06:18:46 · update #1
Ok you have NO one to turn to, so you are forced to RENT a place (no parents help), & for some reason you have no credit cards, Oh & to make things interesting no gov aid either.
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2006-07-29 06:34:11 · update #2
Could you survive in that situation???
2006-07-29 06:34:37 · update #3
P.S.
& NO Health Insurance...
2006-07-29 06:35:09 · update #4
Nowadays in Calif. at least, it would be impossible I think. Gas is too expensive, as well as everything else.
2006-07-29 06:38:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 5⤋
I know that I couldn't be able to. Given that I need day care for my daughter to allow me to work, probably almost all of my paycheck would go to cover that expense. I definitely wouldn't be able to afford a car payment or a house payment living on minimum wage. I probably wouldn't even have any money left after I paid bills and rent - minimum wage is a joke and congress needs to act to get it raised.
2006-07-29 13:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by lonely_girl3_98 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well even a min. wage job would be wonderful right now. My husband got hurt at work, and now he can't work and I'm a student. But even when he was working, no, we really couldn't, except that we live on my parents property and he was making a little over min. wage. But he was only part time.
2006-07-29 13:27:01 · answer #3 · answered by ~~Catbird Woman~~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I absolutely had to, yes. I might not be able to live where I want or drive the kind of car I want, but I think I could do it. You do what you have to.
2006-07-29 13:29:32 · answer #4 · answered by Paige 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can.but it is very hard, You learn to buy just the basic things you need. I had to children so had 2 jobs.
2006-07-29 14:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by jingles_200 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, as long as I wasn't married/joined, didn't have children, and controlled myself (spending limits).
2006-07-29 13:21:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Never
2006-07-29 13:22:52 · answer #7 · answered by bmxcollections 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋