With 10% inflation and the max $15,000 per annum in i-bonds, you’ll net $1,500 in income. You can get three or four times that from blood plasma donation (sales).
Surviving inflation one plasma donation at a time
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/19/louisiana…
For Seal, it has meant that her 18-year teaching career alone can no longer provide for her two children, ages 15 and 12.
“I’ve applied for every government program that I can think of,” she said. “I don’t qualify for food stamps, I don’t qualify for any programs. For middle-class people like me, there are no programs.”
Then, last fall, she found a possible solution. By donating plasma — the liquid element in human blood containing vital antibodies and proteins — twice a week each week, Seal could earn between $400 to $500 per month.
Of course this is Louisiana. But if even mid-career teachers are selling blood plasma to get by, it’s the very definition of a craphole state.
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