31% Of Parents Can't Afford School Supplies This September
I was watching my 5 month-old grandchild one evening when I came across the social media post above. The parent who posted it on the community-wide page did so anonymously, so embarrassed was he or she in making the request.
Due to the suffocating economy, these parents just couldn't afford this year's school supplies for their children. And with school just around the corner, they resorted to reaching out to other parents for help. The response within this upscale community was immediate and heartwarming.
At the same time, it is really hard to stomach the $200 million dollars Vice President Kamala Harris raised in the first week of her candidacy as the Democrat party's presidential candidate when it is the Biden-Harris duo that has placed parents in the extremely tough economic position as to not be able to buy school supplies. Rather than the campaign, I feel, that money should be distributed to parents who have been reduced to beg or borrow for their children's needs this Fall as a result of failed Bidenomics.
There are plenty of them, reveals a recent study conducted by Qualtrics on behalf of Intuit Credit Karma. According to that study, "Nearly one-third (31%) of parents say they are unable to afford back-to-school shopping for their kids this year."
The study would continue to conclude that nearly 60 percent of parents believe that they will be spending more this year than prior years on school supplies due to the increased cost of living as compared to other years.
Some parents have decided to find that required money by giving up family necessities whiles others will simply take on more debt--34 percent of parents, approximately. 16 percent of them will assume up to $1,000 more debt. Still, other parents plan to work second jobs to meet their children's school supply needs. Parents are being punished for the current administration's bad economic policies.
A July study conducted by Coupon Bird cited that 28 percent of the 2,500+ parents polled planned to become part of the '2nd job' crowd, expecting to pay $500-$749 per child on-average in school supplies in 2024. Deloitte's 2024 back-to-school survey estimates that parents will ultimately spend $31.3 billion on school supplies this September.
Consider that number as well as the increased pressure that places on American families who are barely getting by and already need over $11,400 in additional income each year to make ends meet. Expanding persepctive even further, the average cost of daycare each week for families in the United States is $680.
Now, think about all this in light of the $175 billion in 'already-paid and on-going' aid the United States committed to Ukraine. Or the $150.7 billion yearly cost to fund illegal immigration in our nation.
Harris owns this travesty just as Biden does. Their open checkbook has come back to roost on the doorsteps of parents down to the penny. Harris will certainly guarantee more of the same if elected president in the 2024 election.
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As children are the United States' greatest resource and hope, they deserve better. And so do their parents.
No parent should have to go begging for school supplies in our nation, while watching billions in entitlements and taxpayer dollars being given away to criminals and countries who refuse to supply accountings for those funds. Or governments who refuse to deman them.
Had we kept the funding we gifted to Ukraine in our own piggy bank and distributed it among our own citizens, each American citizen would have another $50,000 to purchase school supplies and send their kids to daycare. They'd have nearly twice that with the funding blown on illegal immigrants.
Someone needs to ask Kamala, "Where American parents' equity is?" Isn't she all about equity?
There is no excuse for such prolific ineptness, especially as a current vice president and possible president. Caring about Americans means making sure that the American family can survive...and, dare I say, thrive.
That's not happening today under the Biden-Harris administration. And it certainly won't change tomorrow if the Democrats have another four years in the White House under Harris-Walz. Parents won't even be able to afford a #2 pencil if they win.
A vote for that ticket is like a vote for celibacy. The notion of having kids for Americans will be nonexistent because there won't be any money left over after paying the government. Sounds like Marxism to me.
We need a president who can fix the economy, not further destroy it. Trump's that president. He's done it before and his love for the United States and family will inarguably make him do it again.
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