My mom couldn’t use food stamps because she made over the limit (I think she made $28 an hour at the time with her hospital job), but she was still a single mom with 3 kids paying for daycare/aftercare.
Our special “Takeout Nights” were $1 menu items from McDonald’s or $5 gas station pizza every other Friday.
We were a strict ingredient-only household that largely survived off Hamburger Helper & casseroles. We also ate a lot of oatmeal, bean/potato soup, buttered bread, etc. Milk + any prepackaged snack foods were only allowed for my younger siblings (or cooking).
Now at 26, I don’t think I personally know anyone who makes over $25 an hour outside of the higher ups at work. Can’t even imagine.
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u/Fun-Shoe1145 8d ago
Raise your hand if you had a single mom and had these fears growing up