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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just curious[/quote]

Lots!
DH and I are from mostly working class families, which aren’t nearly as dysfunctional as DCUM would have you believe. There’s a lot of relatives who work retail, the military as enlisted, or in the medical field, and a few who have trades or primary (extractive) sector jobs. DH has cousins who work in the fishing and oil industries.

As for how they are doing:

Pre-pandemic, not as bad as you might think.
Less home ownership. Lots of older vehicles.
Very little debt compared to my middle class friends and what I read about on DCUM, but it can also be hard to get fair credit for big things like mortgages, a new roof or a loan to start a business. Very inexpensive, but not necessarily small weddings and funerals. We see a lot of borrowed dresses and suits and potluck or barbecue. 
Their kids may or may not go to college, but those who do are picking state institutions or using the GI Bill or having Amazon, FedEx, or McDonald’s pay their tuition as an employment benefit.

The pandemic was hard as a lot of work dried up, but there was a redistribution of funds within the extended families for over a year. 
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