A Million US Families Are Living On A Shocking $2 Per Day (Obama's Depression/Michelle In Vail)

TBI ^ | 2-24-2012 | Noelia de la Cruz

[KarlInOhio]

How many are rich people with either a crappy year in the market or who took a lot of capital losses to offset their gains? Or else just let their gains ride and lived off of savings rather than selling something and paying taxes on it?

[Mears]

Living on $2.00 per day would be easy for me if I never had to pay for anything like food,clothing,shelter,medical care,child care,and transportation.

No problem,no problem at all.

This “study” is a crock.

[Hoffer Rand]

Two dollars or less per day translates to about $60 per person, per month.

Don't know of a lot of one-person households. And they're only counting public assistance programs that give out cash into this mix. So, WIC and EBT and free cell phones and free school breakfast and lunch and lowered rent and utilities and free healthcare don't factor into this equation. In other words, it's all smoke and mirrors.

[goseminoles]

BS. 400/mo TANF money, 800 Food stamps, 1000 housing, .80 a day for daycare, free gas cards and bus passes, 40/month electric, 20/internet, free cell phones. Why work? Hell, they are living better than me. I starting to think im the one screwed up in the head.

[Chode]

feh...

[GOPJ]

I don’t believe it.

I also don’t believe the economy is getting better.

I don’t believe there’s more jobs.

I don’t believe having a debt as large as the GDP won’t hurt. It will hurt.

I don’t believe shifting the unemployed to disability means they’re ‘employed’.

I don’t believe Obama ...

I don’t believe democrats.

I don’t believe the New York Times.

I don’t believe the Washington Post.

And I don’t believe this story is anything other than a fabrication by some liberals trying to play on pity to get more money from taxpayers.

I believe gas was $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated and that stupid liberal policies have caused it to go higher.

[tbw2]

I suspect the same manipulation of the definition of “homeless families” is going on in this analysis. An unemployed mom and her kid moving in with distant relatives but not receiving assistance is counted as “homeless”, even though they are living indoors.
A million people living off officially $2 a day are part of those unemployed not counted as unemployed living off other people.

[SaraJohnson]

U. of Mich. involved in the “study.”

[gopheraj]

In Texas the LEAST you get for food stamps is $200 per month on your card. This is a BS article.