re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This brings up a point I was thinking of writing to Joe and Kamala about:

I had to leave the workforce 27 yrs ago because of late term pregnancy complications and then having a child with developmental issues, I’ve talked about it before here a lot. As a result, when it’s time for me to collect social security, I will be lucky to get around 450 dollars a month. My husband is already collecting disability, around 2400 a month, so I would most likely get that or a bit less if he passes before me. Not enough to live super well, but with budgeting and scaling back more than we have, me and the kid would survive. I could sell the house and maybe find something smaller and less maintenance intensive, etc.

But what about women who don’t have any husband in the picture? Daycare for a special needs kid is not cheap, it literally cost more than I made a week at my last job. So since hubby had the biggest paycheck, I stayed home and learned to be a speech therapist, occupational therapist, school advocate and whatever else was needed. And it cost me. A LOT. I’m 60 now, getting a job is next to impossible unless I start my own business of some kind which with no extra money ain’t happening.

I know I am not alone in this. How can a president and congress help fix this? Because the years pass quick, and certain circumstances remain the same, even if your child becomes an adult. I don’t think I could bear or survive being homeless again, it was hard enough when I was in high school and right after, spent close to three years on the street living a very unsafe and unstable existence. If what I did all these years was truly valued this would not even be a worry.