July 2012
107 posts
3 tags
If I lost $85 a paycheck
P. wrote in:
I would have to move back home with my parents. I’m a student who has to work full time and go to school full time, often during the semester. I live in an area where it isn’t very cheap to live and I feel very fortunate to have the opportunities it has brought me. However, due to not being eligible for much financial aid, whether through scholarships or loans, I have to work full...
2 tags
4 tags
Help for my Autistic son
What $85 a paycheck means to lostandfoundliz:
I make “too much” to qualify for assistance with programs that help my autistic teen learn coping skills for life when I’m not here. So $90 a month goes to a Tae Kwon Do program geared specifically to autistic kids. If I lose even a little of my income - which goes paycheck to paycheck - that’s one of many things I’d lose.
4 tags
Mitt Romney tells us how he really feels about...
think-progress:
Don’t forget this one.
3 tags
2 tags
85 dollars a paycheck?
Responding to our question about what you’d have to give up if Congress doesn’t extend $85-a-paycheck middle-class tax cuts that President Obama’s fighting for, alliecattmeow sent this in:
As a low wage worker trying to pay through college I’d have to give up either gas for my car for a whole month, or food in my pantry for an entire week.
It matters to me. Health Care matters...
3 tags
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
“I didn’t mean to create controversy here. Did you hear, there was somebody...”
– President Obama’s favorite Girl Scout cookie: Thin mints. And that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
Girl Scout cookie debates: They can get fractious.
3 tags
Seeing a car with an Obama/Biden 2012 Sticker...
yourebeingjudged:
Same.
2 tags
Taking a lighter course load this fall so I can...
daniellawhon:
Gonna be making a bunch of trips to North Carolina for canvassing and voter registration. I cannot wait.
Let’s make November an easy win, guys.
Yay you/huzzah!
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
