What is considered the poverty line in the US?

notfred

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When you're walking home to your crappy apartment 3 blocks from the grocery store pushing a shopping cart full of bulk generic froot loops and diapers, while pregnant, with 5 kids following you.
 

SagaLore

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You're assuming we have a poverty line. Anyone that makes money, is rich. Anyone that sits on the couch all day to watch TV, they are victims of society who need financial supplementation.
 

SagaLore

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Originally posted by: notfred
When you're walking home to your crappy apartment 3 blocks from the grocery store pushing a shopping cart full of bulk generic froot loops and diapers, while pregnant, with 5 kids following you.

That's not poverty. That's called stupidity and over-fertility.
 

notfred

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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: notfred
When you're walking home to your crappy apartment 3 blocks from the grocery store pushing a shopping cart full of bulk generic froot loops and diapers, while pregnant, with 5 kids following you.

That's not poverty. That's called stupidity and over-fertility.

Which are both associated with poverty.
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: notfred
When you're walking home to your crappy apartment 3 blocks from the grocery store pushing a shopping cart full of bulk generic froot loops and diapers, while pregnant, with 5 kids following you.

That's not poverty. That's called stupidity and over-fertility.

Which are both associated with poverty.

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I'd say anything less than 10k a year is pretty down there.
 

radioouman

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It has to do with the number of dependents that you have (kids). I believe that is somewhere around $20,000 for a family of 4. (Two adults, and two kids.)
 

FoBoT

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if you live in a cardboard box behind the dumpster at Arby's, you are poor

if you live in a van down by the river, you aren't