Regardless of everything else in your post, one of the reasons a family can't survive on one income anymore is because we demand a much higher standard of living today.And labor is $20/hr because the federal reserve causing inflation. The workforce is bloated with women and illegals. Why cant a family survive on 1 income aymore? The workforce was doubled by pressing women into it. Then companies refuse to automate because it cuts into their ladyboy budget so they hire proxy slave labor and call them undoccmented immigrants