• tomalley8342@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If you’re single and you have 3 roommates, your household is still just you for the purpose of calculating household income.

    Where did you hear this brother?

    https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-documentation/subject-definitions.html#household

    A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated people, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit such as partners or roomers, is also counted as a household.

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        8 months ago

        That’s adding to the confusion and seems like a weird gotcha, we’re talking about the census as the person posted above as a source. The people who are confused and wrong seem to be stuck on tax filing status for some reason, I’m hoping obfuscation isn’t the goal.

        • horsey@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          Where did anyone get the idea that the statistic cited in the OP comes from the census?

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            8 months ago

            …I’m going to lean on the side of this being trolling unless you’re just lost or not following the full conversation. We are in a comment chain discussing what friend_of_satan@lemmy.world replied to OP with. No one is implying the OP image is census data, people are using the census data to dispute the OP image’s claims. I feel breaking it down further is redundant since you can just scroll back up and read all the replies.

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              8 months ago

              For some reason I’ve been accused of being a troll and being deluded because I said it makes more sense to define household the way the IRS does, and I was told no, it’s about the census. At this point my interpretation is no of here really has a clue what they’re taking about at all. Thanks for the sideways insults though.