Half of black Millennials make less than 15k a year.

[SheWantTheD]

If enough people felt that way, they would.
Fact is its not viewed as more valuable than that, and automation will do away with it in the next 10yrs anyway...
Truth is, just being alive and gaining employment isn't enough to secure comfort, you need to take education seriously.

Dude, if you are making $10 or more an hour working 40 hour shifts.. you are gonna make more than 15k a year.

 

[NerdNash]

1998-2010 I averaged 33,000 a year
2011 (took city test)
2010-2012 unemployed
2012 (may-dec) brought in 8,000k
2013- 12k
2014- 13k
2015 -30k (hired by city job)
2016- 71k
2017- 82k
2018 so far from my last paycheck im at 87k. (I'm cracking 100k before the end of the fiscal year).

Sometimes it takes a while before you get financially stable... Took me years of working bullshyt jobs into my 30's.

How old are you beloved

 

[Doctor Wily]

How old are you beloved

37.

I started working at 16 while I was still in high school.

 

[NerdNash]

Take advantage of this new digital wave if you can. Digital marketing and promo. I know people making good money off that ...just need a good following.

 

[NerdNash]

37.

I started working at 16 while I was still in high school.

I’m 35. Ain’t had a job in mad long lol smh . Hustles and entrepreneurship been getting me by but the ups and downs will make you crazy. Def not a stable way of life ... yet. But I’m still grinding

 

[Doctor Wily]

I’m 35. Ain’t had a job in mad long lol smh . Hustles and entrepreneurship been getting me by but the ups and downs will make you crazy. Def not a stable way of life ... yet. But I’m still grinding

Great health coverage/insurance is the primary reason I stay with MTA. Couple that with a cake job & flexibility on the outside for hustling (havent taken advantage of this yet). I'm stable but not fully satisfied like alot of my co-workers are.

 

[Neuromancer]

Let's say this is accurate and those millenials are making 15K a year or less. Doesn't this strengthen the argument that we, as black people, need to STOP shaming our people for staying home? If you are black and in your 20s or 30s, unless you are PAID and debt free with tens of gs in the bank (and, honestly, even that does nothing to really mitigate the experience of being black in this white supremacist society), you should try as hard as you can to stay home and STACK YOUR PAPER. Period. A brother who only makes 15k a year and lives at home will be in a better position within 5 years than a brother who makes twice or third as much and is renting. Black people need to stop thinking shyt is one way when it's the other way and always has been.

And renting from whom? A number of Black parents and grandparents own their dwellings. You gonna rent from someone who doesn't know or care about you instead of taking care of a place you stand to inherit? We have it backwards.

 

[Neuromancer]

Great health coverage/insurance is the primary reason I stay with MTA. Couple that with a cake job & flexibility on the outside for hustling (havent taken advantage of this yet). I'm stable but not fully satisfied like alot of my co-workers are.

Healthcare is very important.

 

[Neuromancer]

37.

I started working at 16 while I was still in high school.

Where do you live now, breh?

 

[NerdNash]

Great health coverage/insurance is the primary reason I stay with MTA. Couple that with a cake job & flexibility on the outside for hustling (havent taken advantage of this yet). I'm stable but not fully satisfied like alot of my co-workers are.

All in all man just live and appreciate your life. We could be gone tomorrow and none of this will matter. Stay up

 

[Doctor Wily]

Where do you live now, breh?

North Woodmere NY

Which shares the same zip code as valley stream & is down the block (literally) from Rosedale , Queens.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

North Woodmere NY

Which shares the same zip code as valley stream & is down the block (literally) from Rosedale , Queens.

You puttin it all out there

 

[David_TheMan]

And what is this belief based on? It doesn't jive with stats in the OP at all

Study: Black man and white felon – same chances for hire
A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Study: Black man and white felon – same chances for hire
A Black College Student Has The Same Chances Of Getting A Job As A White High School Dropout

Thanks, but that says a black person with an associate's degree has the same likelihood of landing a job as a white person with just a HS diploma, not that a black college grad has the same likelihood as a white HS dropout.

And what about the felon part? That would be the most surprising.

 

[Doctor Wily]

You puttin it all out there

I'm off the social media grid so the wolves wouldn't be able to find me anyway