[tobyhill]

A family of 4 making $13,000 a year actually has the opportunity to clear $35,000 a year with government benefits and money.
A family of 4 making $35,000 a year will actually clear $30,000 a year after taxes but still have to pay for other necessities out of their own pockets.
The moral of the stats is that if you are making $13,000 or less a year and your boss offers to double your salary turn it down.

[MrB]

Along with your stats, people need to realize this little ditty as well:

The poverty stats DO NOT INCLUDE money that “the poor” get from you through forced wealth transfer.

This is why “the poor” never seem to get “better” - they have no reason to, because they aren’t hurtin’.