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Michael Green: For a family the new poverty line is now around $140,000 including child care and everything else. And this is conservative. The problem is the median family salary in America is only around 80k. We are sinking and it’s getting uglyhttps://t.co/eDxVnI3SLW — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) November 24, 2025 New EPI family budget data …
Excluding health care, the U.S. economy has lost more than 140,000 jobs over the last four months pic.twitter.com/l9HjcgqeEY — Matthew B (@boes_) September 5, 2025 Fox Business is coping hard with another bad Trump jobs report: "That 22,000 number — it's a weaker than expected number, and these revisions are pretty brutal … it's disappointing …
This is CRAZY! I thought the days of markups on trucks and SUVs was behind us since sales of trucks & SUVs are so slow. But apparently the dealer markups are still happening on some vehicles. And it’s not just trucks like the Ford Raptor R that are still being marked up. A Toyota dealer …
Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms in the U.S. declined by 141,733 or 7%, according to USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, released on Feb. 13. Acres operated by farm operations during the same timeframe declined by 20.1 million (2.2%), a loss equivalent to an area about the size of Maine. Only 1.88% of acres …