MagaMaggot (11-15-2018)
Data shows 16% of Americans live in poverty. Poverty level for a family of 4 is $25,100.
Median household income is $59,039.
Personal debt has been a problem for decades. People spend more than they have. Personal savings has been a problem for decades. People don’t save enough for retirement.
I’m not sure how the article calculated the data.
Making $60,000 a year (without extravagant spending) I can live comfortably in a middle class neighborhood in many places in the United States.
However making $60,000 I’m in proverty if I have to live in New York City, Boston or San Francisco.
People have to start living within their means and start saving.
A lot of the personal debt is self inflicted.
MagaMaggot (11-15-2018)
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MagaMaggot (11-15-2018)
There was a Wisconsin study that found a single parent working part time and attending technical college full time raising two children received $41,292 in public assistance tax and student financial aid benefits.
Washington Post article of 12/5/14
MagaMaggot (11-15-2018)
Healthcare for the poor. It’s called Medicaid.
Take a trip to your nearest hospital emergency room. A large number of patients waiting to see a doctor don’t have emergencies. Because it’s taxpayer dollars the patients are there for minor alignments that can to treated at home or at clinics.
Those of us with employer funded healthcare with deductibles are not going to hospital emergency rooms for minor alignments.
A study found a potential 4.4 billion in annual savings if non-urgent emergency room visits were eliminated.
MagaMaggot (11-15-2018)
No moron, you should stfu... having seen actual third world living, there is no fucking comparison. None. Our poorest are nowhere near being in the bottom 10%. Try going to villages in Africa where they are still living in mud huts. Or perhaps to India, China and other Asian countries where the living conditions of their poor are horrid.
Saying 1 in 7 Americans are among the poorest 10% is not only an insult to the actual poor in the world, it is truly fucking moronic.
Callinectes (11-15-2018), MagaMaggot (11-15-2018), Tkaffen (11-15-2018)
In a move that was barely noticed due to the increasing number of distractions with this presidency, Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that requires several government departments to implement work requirements for people seeking federal assistance. Departments like HUD, Health and Human Services, and Agriculture will now force people to get a job or be kicked out of federal housing, lose their farm subsidies, or lose Medicaid and food stamps. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the Trump administration’s war on the poor.
https://trofire.com/2018/04/21/trump...oor-americans/
MAGA?
MagaMaggot (11-15-2018)
Our healthcare system and its costs drive the poor to Emergency rooms.. Most employers don't provide healthcare benefits these days.
If you have healthcare insurance thru your employer YOU are paying for the poor, indigent, elderly and million dollar premature babies thru cost shifting and have been doing so for 30 years.
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