Federal Standards are completely out of touch with reality.... Let's take the DC Area...
Single person making $9800 per year: That's 817.00 a month. Average rent for a one bedroom apartment in the DC area: $1100.00 a month, assuming utilities are included in rent.. Food.. $150 a month.. you're already $433.00 in the hole per month. You need about 2100 a month to live...barely, in this area, which puts the real poverty line at around $25,200 a year. A far, far cry from $9800.00. I doubt there's a McDonalds Manager that makes that much, let alone a burger fry cook. So you'd better be able to do a lot more than Nick's criteria, otherwise there's a shelter bunk with your name on it. Between my wife and I, we make over $120,000 a year, and can't afford a single family home, we can't even afford a townhouse in a good neighborhood. Which is why we're getting the hell out at the end of July. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 7241 Jillspring Ct. Springfield, Va. 22152 (703) 220-2835 http://www.sstwebworks.com -----Original Message----- From: Nick McClure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:44 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Poverty Challenge! First thing is first. The Poverty Level for a single person living alone is: $9,800 per year which put you making around $4.71 per hour. With local fast food places starting at $9.00 per hour, it is pretty easy for a single person to live above the poverty line. With two people, the line is at $13,200. Again, one person working fast food at $9.00 an hour still gets more than that. Three person family is at $16,000, so that same $9.00 per hour still puts you above poverty. It isn't until a 4 person family that the income rises to $20,000 per year, so you'd have to make $9.62 to be above the poverty line with a family of four. Really what is comes down to as that the poverty line is a Bullshit number based on information from the lower 48 states. Alaska and Hawaii put the poverty line higher. So basically it comes down to, if you can hold down a fast food job you won't live in poverty. And so long as you are able to show up for work, and can listen and follow directions, you can probably hold down a fast food job. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 10:10 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Poverty Challenge! > > I just heard an interesting stat that surely someone here would like > to debunk? Well, here it is: > > In America, one has a 0% chance of living below the poverty line if: > > (1.) You graduate from High School > (2.) You don't have child out of wedlock, and > (3.) You don't become addicted to alcohol or drugs. > > Seems like a simple prescription for success. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236805 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
