I think there's a major bifurcation between dying Democrat megacities & the rest of the country.

I am pretty confident I could support a family of 4 on $100k/yr.

$100k per year pre-tax -> $70k after income/payroll taxes

Minus roughly $2k/mo on housing

Minus roughly $2k/mo on food

Minus roughly $1-2k/yr on utilities

Minus roughly $5k/yr on transport

Minus roughly $1k/yr on clothes

This leaves roughly $14k/yr of savings / spending

And honestly a lot of those costs could be cut if you really had to

Barebones maybe $1200/mo on food and $1k/yr on transport, freeing up another $14k (ish)

But trying to raise a family of 4 on $60k per year (pre-tax) seems... very challenging from my perspective, that would about cut out all the spending I perceive as optional or avoidable.

This is double the official federal poverty level.