Not The Onion

12313 readers

147 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

474

Bipartisan bill would prevent millionaires from taking unemployment checks (www.foxnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

59 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Um, how isn't this a thing already? (Millionaire=people who earn $1M yearly)
Sorry for Fox News, but it's the best source with this headline and it says it's bipartisan so we should probably be good.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

actually calculating net worth is extremely difficult to do, especially among the wealthy.

Even among the non-wealthy. For example, you might have some guy who has essentially no savings but who worked for an auto manufacturer and has a pension coming, compared to another guy who has a million dollars in his 401K but the annual income from that would be less than the first guy's pension.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In the 90s, I didn't qualify for food stamps. I had a minimum wage job, but the house I lived in had a washer and a dryer, which meant I was too rich for food stamps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Were* those literally criteria that were used?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's bonkers. I'm sorry you had to endure that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That's Indiana for you. And I survived despite it, so it all worked out, but thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not exactly related, I was a college kid looking to move out of my parents' house back in 2007. I applied for Section 8 housing as my minimum wage job at the time technically met all the qualifications for it. I wasn't allowed to receive it because I was in school at the time. You can't be poor and go to college at the same time if you wanted a place to live, apparently.