r/pics • u/DrFetusRN • 24d ago

Taliban fighters patrolling in an American taxpayer paid Humvee

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u/ac1084 24d ago

Then the media posts "feel good stories" about a 7 year old who pays off students lunch debt with his lemonade stand money like it isn't totally fucked up.

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u/chaos8803 24d ago

Don't forget the one about a single mother working three jobs. Why should someone need three jobs to support a family?

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u/IllIIIlIIllIIlllIlI 24d ago

No one actually works 3 jobs in the US, statistically speaking. Only 5% of American workers have more than one job.

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u/_Z_E_R_O 24d ago

Got a source for that?

A lot of people work side gigs that they don’t even count as jobs such as driving for Uber, working at grocery delivery services like Shipt, and doing freelance work in their free time.

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u/IllIIIlIIllIIlllIlI 24d ago edited 24d ago

The multiple jobholding rate—the percentage of workers who held more than one job at the same time—was 4.9 percent in 2017.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/4-point-9-percent-of-workers-held-more-than-one-job-at-the-same-time-in-2017.htm

Here's a more recent source. 4.6% as of July 2021:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02026620