Dec 20, 2011

Things Are Tough All Over

Paul Fell, 12/19/11:
No, actually there are 50 million Americans below the official poverty line -- about 1/6th of the population -- and another 100 million that are above it, but don't make more than 200% of poverty-level income.

Those people are "near poor," or "not very well off," or "struggling," or "one paycheck away from disaster", or whatever else you'd like to call them -- but, by the definition of the term, they're not "poor" in the same way the 50 million people below the line are.

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