Poverty is no mystery, and it's easily avoidable. The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For a two-person household, it was $16,072, and for a four-person household, it was $24,755. To beat those poverty thresholds is fairly simple. Here's the road map: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen.
How about some numbers? A single person taking a minimum wage job would earn an annual income of $15,080. A married couple would earn $30,160. By the way, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, less than 4 percent of hourly workers in 2016 were paid the minimum wage. That means that over 96 percent of workers earned more than the minimum wage. Not surprising is the fact that among both black and white married couples, the poverty rate is in the single digits. Most poverty is in female-headed households.
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Pretty simple, unless you're pretty simple. It's too bad that we have so many that just want to sit on the lap of entitlement and multi-generational poverty.
ReplyDeleteIt IS pretty simple.
ReplyDeleteTHIS generation, who has been given EVERYTHING, thinks the good stuff is what they DESERVE.
They can't even SPELL "sacrifice" and have no clue what it means to delay or deny oneself for a greater gain or a future payoff.
"I don't need no man!".
Yes you do.
Single family female headed households are the largest group of people in poverty?
Society is crumbling. Inch by inch.
Buy guns and ammo.
Bury some of it for later.
Poor people, over time, get really angry and resentful. They tend to take it out on the more fortunate ones (with jobs, houses, and a SPOUSE).
And since the gap between those two is growing bigger EVERY DAY, don't look at any history to show you what is coming.
Nope.
What sense would that make?