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To: mnehrling

One thing that everyone needs to remember about “poverty statistics” -

they never include gov’t benefits as “income”. So if you’re getting your housing, food, utilities, and child support paid, and then you have a 10k “job” on top of it for your spending money, you’re poor.


42 posted on 12/10/2008 11:50:10 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: MrB
One thing that everyone needs to remember about “poverty statistics” - they never include gov’t benefits as “income”. So if you’re getting your housing, food, utilities, and child support paid, and then you have a 10k “job” on top of it for your spending money, you’re poor.

Or child support. Child support is not considered income.

64 posted on 12/10/2008 12:05:25 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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