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They drive cars, but seldom new ones.
They earn paychecks, but not big ones.
Many own homes.
Most pay taxes.
Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs.
None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by.
Down but not quite out, these Americans form a diverse group sometimes called “near poor” and sometimes simply overlooked — and a new count suggests they are far more numerous than previously understood.
Half live in households headed by a married couple; 49 percent live in the suburbs. Nearly half are non-Hispanic white, 18 percent are black and 26 percent are Latino.
Perhaps the most surprising finding is that 28 percent work full-time, year round.
After a lost decade of flat wages and the worst downturn since the last Great Depression (also caused by GOP pandering to Wall Street and Big Business), the findings can be thought of as putting numbers to the bleak national mood — quantifying the expressions of unease erupting in protests...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/u...not-quite-in-poverty-but-struggling.html?_r=1
They earn paychecks, but not big ones.
Many own homes.
Most pay taxes.
Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs.
None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by.
Down but not quite out, these Americans form a diverse group sometimes called “near poor” and sometimes simply overlooked — and a new count suggests they are far more numerous than previously understood.
Half live in households headed by a married couple; 49 percent live in the suburbs. Nearly half are non-Hispanic white, 18 percent are black and 26 percent are Latino.
Perhaps the most surprising finding is that 28 percent work full-time, year round.
After a lost decade of flat wages and the worst downturn since the last Great Depression (also caused by GOP pandering to Wall Street and Big Business), the findings can be thought of as putting numbers to the bleak national mood — quantifying the expressions of unease erupting in protests...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/u...not-quite-in-poverty-but-struggling.html?_r=1