Posted on Oct 15, 2022
The Price Of Poverty: What it means to be poor in America
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In 2020, more than 37 million Americans lived in poverty according to new data from the U.S Census Bureau. That’s 3.3 million more than in 2019.
But this number doesn’t include those who are above the poverty line and struggling to make a living.
According to the Poor People’s Campaign, once low-income families are accounted for, that number is closer to 140 million Americans.
What does it actually mean to be poor? How do people fall below the poverty line? And why is it so hard to get above it? We carve out time to talk about poverty in America in our series “The Price of Poverty.”
But this number doesn’t include those who are above the poverty line and struggling to make a living.
According to the Poor People’s Campaign, once low-income families are accounted for, that number is closer to 140 million Americans.
What does it actually mean to be poor? How do people fall below the poverty line? And why is it so hard to get above it? We carve out time to talk about poverty in America in our series “The Price of Poverty.”
The Price Of Poverty: What it means to be poor in America
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I was once one of those people, both as a child and later as an emerging adult. My Dad married my Mother while he was in the Air Force. When that happened I was on the way and we lived in what had been a chicken coop. Later we moved up to a log cabin without running water or electricity. We moved up the hill in a house without running water but with electricity. My Dad installed a pump to get water in the house and put a toilet in the basement, barracks style.
As a young man< I was married for 6 of my eight college semesters and had a kid through 4 of those. I worked hard and went to school full time commuting to Oshkosh from Fond du Lac everyday. When drafted, I only had 3 months in at the beginning of my career. We lived below the poverty line that whole time in school and repeated that as then parents of 2 boys. I did take out a school loan the final semester of my senior and paid it back about 9 months after returning to civilian life
As a young man< I was married for 6 of my eight college semesters and had a kid through 4 of those. I worked hard and went to school full time commuting to Oshkosh from Fond du Lac everyday. When drafted, I only had 3 months in at the beginning of my career. We lived below the poverty line that whole time in school and repeated that as then parents of 2 boys. I did take out a school loan the final semester of my senior and paid it back about 9 months after returning to civilian life
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According to many of those on the right, those poor people just need to find a job and all their troubles will go away.
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