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8/5/2025, 2:18:41 PM
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America is Over
>ENDICOTT, N.Y.—By government standards, Lisa Meazler and her three daughters aren’t technically poor.
>Meazler earns $37,500 a year, working for a nonprofit that helps connect new mothers with services. She owns her own home, a small house with blue siding and a backyard in a quiet neighborhood outside Binghamton.
>Some nights, Meazler, 43, wonders how far it’s gotten her. She hasn’t been able to afford to take the girls, ages 7, 13 and 22, on a real vacation for years. She winces when her middle child, Emmi, asks why she can’t make “normal dinners” like other families, referring to the home cooked meals Emmi eats with friends instead of the cheaper frozen food her mom serves. Meazler tells her they don’t have money like other families.
>“We’re fine, Mom,” Emmi said, plopped down on the living room couch after basketball practice. “We are fine,” Meazler smiled.
Away from her children, Meazler’s blue eyes fill with tears.
>Her credit cards are maxed out. She’s constantly behind on her cellphone bills. She usually pays her $865 mortgage late, like she did around Christmas, to have enough cash to buy her girls extras. In December, she got a letter from the county social services department approving her for $253 in monthly food assistance.
>“Sometimes I think, ‘Where did I go wrong?’” she said.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/earning-more-worse-shape-poverty-overwhelms-families-eab13800?st=BqysQ3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
>Meazler earns $37,500 a year, working for a nonprofit that helps connect new mothers with services. She owns her own home, a small house with blue siding and a backyard in a quiet neighborhood outside Binghamton.
>Some nights, Meazler, 43, wonders how far it’s gotten her. She hasn’t been able to afford to take the girls, ages 7, 13 and 22, on a real vacation for years. She winces when her middle child, Emmi, asks why she can’t make “normal dinners” like other families, referring to the home cooked meals Emmi eats with friends instead of the cheaper frozen food her mom serves. Meazler tells her they don’t have money like other families.
>“We’re fine, Mom,” Emmi said, plopped down on the living room couch after basketball practice. “We are fine,” Meazler smiled.
Away from her children, Meazler’s blue eyes fill with tears.
>Her credit cards are maxed out. She’s constantly behind on her cellphone bills. She usually pays her $865 mortgage late, like she did around Christmas, to have enough cash to buy her girls extras. In December, she got a letter from the county social services department approving her for $253 in monthly food assistance.
>“Sometimes I think, ‘Where did I go wrong?’” she said.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/earning-more-worse-shape-poverty-overwhelms-families-eab13800?st=BqysQ3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
