Citation required.
SNAP is available to those with household income below 130% of the poverty line.
The poverty line is $32,150 for a family of four, with an additional $5,500 for each additional dependent. There is no limit on the number of dependents.
A worker earning $100k with twelve dependents would qualify for SNAP.
Walmart and McDonalds are two of the biggest employers in America, so it is no surprise that they are also top employers of SNAP and Medicaid recipients.
Even people making $100k can qualify for SNAP if they have enough dependents.
Requiring employers to know each worker's living situation and pay accordingly is ridiculous.
And if you're paid in RMB
Paid? I thought we were talk'n about bonds, not paychecks.
last time I was in China the unofficial exchange rate you could get for dollars on the street was 10 times what the government allowed at official exchange places?
You must have been in China a long, long time ago.
There hasn't been a black market for currency exchange in decades.
This is bizzarre consider you can't even trade RMB freely.
I have a condo in Shanghai, so I can use RMB to pay the HOA fee.
I use the condo when I'm working in my employer's Shanghai office. My in-laws are living there now.
PRC has currency controls permanently in place.
The limit is $50k USD out per year. Inward transfers are unlimited. But it's not difficult to work around the limits. Just ask a friend to make the transfer for you. Of course, this is illegal, but asking friends to commit crimes on your behalf is kinda a normal thing in China.
Most Walmart and McDonalds employees do not qualify for public assistance.
Those that do are primary or sole breadwinners for their household with dependents.
If you feel it is wrong for these people to work at Walmart for the wages offered, then a simple solution is to require them to disclose their household situation on the job application so Walmart can avoid hiring them.
Then you no longer need to worry about taxpayers "subsidizing" Walmart.
Revenue is up 27%.
Revenue means little.
You need to look at net income (profit).
But DoorDash is not a charity and has no reason to pay drivers more than what is needed to recruit and retain them.
I'm told tipping is not optional
Tipping is optional. According to Google, 25% of DoorDash customers do not tip.
and the person serving me food needs it to live.
There are starving children in Africa. If you're doing nothing for them, you probably shouldn't feel too guilty about the DoorDash deliverer.
So if that is the case why are poor people eating out and taking food out of the servers mouth if they can't tip?
Not using DoorDash at all is taking away even more money.
Disclaimer: I don't eat restaurant food, so I've never used DoorDash. I use InstaCart for groceries, and tip the default amount.
If I'm paying a delivery fee, why does the food cost more before the fee? What part of the fee is funding the delivery?
It is standard marketing psychology.
People will pay X for food and Y for delivery, but won't pay (X+Y) for the food with free delivery.
When people comparison shop, they will compare the food cost but ignore the delivery fee. So it is better to shove some of the cost into tack-on fees.
UberDash wants the tip to come after the customer commits to buy so the cost of the tip isn't factored into the decision.
The grid investment were planned at a time, when battery storage was not viable, and is by many deemed to be excessive, as the average load of the grid is about 15% of the capacity.
Another quirk is that German regulations are currently paying a renewable energy provider for the potential amount of energy, not for the energy amount actually provided. This means that the provider is notifying the grid about the currently available power, and gets paid for being willing to provide the energy, independently of the grid's capacity to make use of the energy. This disincentivizes the combination of renewables with battery storage, and hence letting available renewable electric energy going to waste, because the surplus energy is not stored, but simply switched off. On the other hand, the amount of battery storage projects applied for is currently 20 times higher than assumed in the energy report from 2023, which means that the money planned for the grid might be freed up when some expansion projects are proven to be unnecessary.
You, my friend, are an acting politician.
Are you saying you would rather be paid in RMB?
At the same interest rate, I'd definitely prefer RMB over USD.
And wasn't the C in BRICS supposed to be using the BRICS currency for trade, not RMB or dollars?
RMB is the BRICS currency.
Would you prefer rubles?
Even the British agree that the word "leftenant" doesn't make any fucking sense.
It's no worse than "colonel".
Or you can do two at a time with "lieutenant colonel".
4.375% in US dollars, or 1.88% in RMB?
The USA is experiencing inflation.
China is experiencing deflation.
So the different interest rates make sense.
And where are the BRICS currency bonds?
The "C" in BRICS is China.
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