Posted on 06/04/2014 11:29:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
One in five children under age 18, or 21.3%, are living in poverty in the United States, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
In 2012, there were 15,437,000 children under 18 years old, or 21.3%, who were classified in the “below poverty” threshold, according to the Census.
“The incidence of poverty rates varies widely across the population according to age, education, labor force attachment, family living arrangements, and area of residence, among other factors. Under the official poverty definition, an average family of four was considered poor in 2012 if its pre-tax cash income for the year was below $23,492,” according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report entitled Poverty in the United States: 2012. …
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Wife and I had one child.
We wanted to insure he had.
Had we had two or more that may not have been the case.
The people who draw the poverty line here obviously have never seen the slums in Brasil or South Africa. Our “poverty” is luxury compared to the rest of the world. By those standards ZERO out of 5 children in the US live in poverty.
The fruits of de facto Open Borders and 40% illegitimacy rates.
BALONEY because 1 out of 5 of all the children I know of DO NOT LIVE IN POVERTY.
1 in 5 are illegal aliens.
All f their statistics are misleading. I will use someone I know as an example. She is on her second marriage and has 3 children, 1 by the current husband and 2 from previous. She gets child support for the 2 children and is going to trade school. The company her husband works for has an open enrollment for insurance and then it closes for the rest of the year. Because of the Obamacare mandate and the fact that her husband’s companies enrollment was closed for the year she applied for insurance for her and the 2 children on CoveredCa. Because she has no income other than child support they immediately enrolled her and the 2 children in MediCal. They live in a $300,000 house, drive a new car and are on public aid.
The fattest “poor” people in the world.
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