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☆ Long COVID disabled me 2 years ago, and the disabled tax means I pay for it constantly
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Lygia Navarro | Avril Ayers | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
I used to love thrifting, but the disabled tax means that's not a viable choice for me due to long COVID. But I'd never heard of the disabled tax, or, as some disabled people have reclaimed it, the "crip tax." The disabled tax affects all disabled people differentlyLike the pink tax, the disabled tax isn't charged by governments, but by society itself. The disabled tax manifests in unique ways for all disabled people. Before long COVID, I'd long prided myself for a frugality that helped my family live well even on just one income.
☆ A recession might be looming, but I'm not worried. I feel like I've been preparing my whole life.
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Lygia Navarro | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Insider's experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). I'm not worried about the recession because it feels like I've been practicing for years. Neither of us have family to depend on financially; in fact, we support my partner's family abroad. Ever since, I've bought the vast majority of our kid's clothes secondhand, and this child is never lacking in style. The night we were too broke for a hotel and lucked into a camping spot on a Big Sur riverbank.
☆ The economic sexism of being a stay-at-home mom cost me years of career momentum, salary, and the ability to save for retirement — but I'd do it again
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Lygia Navarro | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
I had to depend more on my partner's salary and fell out of touch with professional contacts. Thanks to my partner's salary, my six-month-leave stretched longer. I was still saddled with societal pressures around work: working mom friends quizzed me constantly about my return, and I stressed about being "unproductive." While my partner's salary covers our basic living expenses, and mine goes to savings and student debt, our kid doesn't have a college fund yet — and we won't be able to retire before our 70s. The economic sexism of caregiving cost me years of career momentum, salary, and the ability to save for retirement — even more worrisome now that I am disabled by long COVID.
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