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I have a BA in English. My husband has a MS in physics.
We got the degrees through Pell Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans.
We have played by all the rules, working 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 jobs between us.
We have 4 children, teenagers now.
Two of them were medicaid babies, and thank goodness, because medicaid covered the heart defects a private insurance would have dumped.
We had WIC. Sometimes that bowl of cereal was all that stood between me and going hungry because I had fed my dinner to my daighter as well as her own. A couple of times, usually when we were only working 1-2 jobs, we qualified for and took food stamps.
Mudd worked three jobs: schoolteacher, adjunct college prof and blackjack dealer, putting in 65-70 hour weeks. I worked full time as a library paraprofessional, and handled all the second-shift work at home.
Now, I drive a semi. My workweek is 50 hours. He still teaches school. I put in at least 20 hours a week writing romance novels for a side income.
Mudd, despite teaching in an impoverished district, does not qualify to have any loans forgiven because of their age.
We make double the typical income in our town.
We are in the top 30% of wage earners and Mudd fears the day the lower 70% turn on us as well as the multibillionaires.
We will not be done paying student loans until we are 70.
Approximately 50% of our income goes to student and medical debt.
We are the 99%.
We got the degrees through Pell Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans.
We have played by all the rules, working 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 jobs between us.
We have 4 children, teenagers now.
Two of them were medicaid babies, and thank goodness, because medicaid covered the heart defects a private insurance would have dumped.
We had WIC. Sometimes that bowl of cereal was all that stood between me and going hungry because I had fed my dinner to my daighter as well as her own. A couple of times, usually when we were only working 1-2 jobs, we qualified for and took food stamps.
Mudd worked three jobs: schoolteacher, adjunct college prof and blackjack dealer, putting in 65-70 hour weeks. I worked full time as a library paraprofessional, and handled all the second-shift work at home.
Now, I drive a semi. My workweek is 50 hours. He still teaches school. I put in at least 20 hours a week writing romance novels for a side income.
Mudd, despite teaching in an impoverished district, does not qualify to have any loans forgiven because of their age.
We make double the typical income in our town.
We are in the top 30% of wage earners and Mudd fears the day the lower 70% turn on us as well as the multibillionaires.
We will not be done paying student loans until we are 70.
Approximately 50% of our income goes to student and medical debt.
We are the 99%.
