Report: Arizona gets grade of ‘D’ for financial security of families

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• valleynative posted at 8:34 am on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.

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  To a large extent, the "disappearance of the middle class" is simply the bursting of the credit card debt bubble that was allowing those people to pass as middle class by spending much more than they earned.

  If you've got $12,000 in credit card debt, you seriously need to consider trying to spend LESS than you bring in, rather than more.

  I don't want to have my taxes raised to support you when your bubble bursts.

  
  

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• Katydid52 posted at 8:58 am on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.

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  "She said two of the biggest problems in Arizona are education – not all kids in the state get schooling that prepares them for college – and fair full-time employment that can sustain a family."

  To blame the school is easy. If you spend any time in schools you know there are kids who will never go to college no matter what the school does. That's just logical. There has never been a time "everyone" went to college.

  There should be more widespread programs available for students who could not succeed in college, like EVIT, only available to every student in every district.

  You cannot force young people to care about their future. We should all try, but due to a number of reasons, some teens just won't work hard.

  What is "fair" full time employment? $30 for unskilled labor? I read an article once about a young man who was frustrated he could not provide for his family making $10 an hour. He was 25, had a wife and 3 kids, and his wife didn't work. Well, that's pretty stupid. Am I expected to support his family when I chose to be responsible, got training for a job, and didn't have a child until I was 30?

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• valleynative posted at 9:33 am on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.

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  I expected some mention of the number of households in which the adults don't speak English or have valid social security numbers.

  
  

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• ralpho posted at 10:34 am on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.

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  Now see how secure the rich have in meaning how hard is it fro them to lose oh thats right they never do. That my friends is just how republicanism works.
  And there is no other way to peel this potato.

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• Leon Ceniceros posted at 2:18 pm on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.

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  11.6% Un-banked households = 400,000 Illegal Aliens Criminals who came across the US Border with 40lb backpacks full of Marijuana, Cocaine, Meth, Heroin and Opium.

  We can thank President Obama and the Democrats for that. A few of our Major Church Groups too.

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• valleynative posted at 4:16 pm on Mon, Feb 4, 2013.

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  ralpho, I have no idea what you're trying to say. Maybe if you had paid attention in school well enough to know how to punctuate a sentence, you would be wealthy, yourself.
  

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• chuckles3 posted at 4:00 pm on Tue, Feb 5, 2013.

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  $12k in credit card debt. Reduce spending, pay this off first. Just like the example the government set.

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• Light-a-Shuck posted at 9:30 pm on Tue, Feb 5, 2013.

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  Education cuts are the norm in AZ. Funding has been cut K-16 for years. At one time education funding was 52% of the state budget now it is 44%. Cuts have consequences. Just check out the tuition at our state universities. Since 2001 tuition has gone up from $1,000/year to $10,000/year today. The Middle-class is being squeezed big time. Those coming out of college with large debt may feel they were sold a bill of goods and a triple whammy: a college degree, no job and debt. I guess it could be worse. They could move back in with mom. Better yet, Rep. John Kavanagh can explain to them all about the benefits of "less is more" in public education.

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• valleynative posted at 11:06 am on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.

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  If you look at the report, it gives us a "D" in financial security, but shows us as average for education.
  

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• smegma posted at 9:46 pm on Wed, Feb 6, 2013.

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  Don't see what the problem is here. Families are just doing what the federal government is doing.

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