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  • $10 an Hour with 2 Kids? IRS Pounces

    12/06/2009 12:48:00 PM PST · by Publius · 154 replies · 6,944+ views
    Seattle Times ^ | 6 December 2009 | Danny Westneat
    Rachel Porcaro knows she's hardly rich. When you're a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don't need government experts to tell you how broke you are. But that's what happened. The government not only told Porcaro she was poor. They said she was too poor to make it in Seattle. It all started a year ago, when Porcaro, a 32-year-old mom with two boys, was summoned to the Seattle office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She had been flagged for an audit. She couldn't believe it. She made $18,992 the previous year cutting hair at Supercuts. A...