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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And on top of that for most government workers their paychecks have been remarkably stable. Assuming you'll always be employed plus easy credit and bad financial habits are a bad combination

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Pretty much this. For many, up until basically right now, working in the federal government all but guaranteed employment for years. I tried very, very hard to be employed at my local NIOSH branch (sadly didn't make the cut) because of this fact.