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What you are describing is the working poor. I know a family that meets your description to the tee. The family consist of three kids and a single parent, no dad. They have a car that runs about as often as it doesn't run. The mother works two days a week as a maid and is waitress on the weekend. She get's food stamps and welfare payments for the kids, Medicaid, and no child support.How can anyone see this and not worry about what things are coming down to in America today.
Hunger & Poverty In America - YouTube
a. Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
b. Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
c. Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
d. The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
e. Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
f. Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
g. Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
h. Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
i. As a group, America's poor are far from being chronically undernourished. The average consumption of protein, vitamins, and minerals is virtually the same for poor and middle-class children and, in most cases, is well above recommended norms. Poor children actually consume more meat than do higher-income children and have average protein intakes 100 percent above recommended levels. Most poor children today are, in fact, supernourished and grow up to be, on average, one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier than the GIs who stormed the beaches of Normandy in World War II.How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the "Plague" of Poverty in America
I used to be surprised at how gullible folks like you were...then I saw that Barack Obama had been elected.
They have a microwave and an a color TV. Both purchased at a thrift store for about $10 each. They own their house because it was left to them by a parent. I'm familiar with this family because our church helped them out when the dad took off.
This is the new middle class.
I don't accept that description as accurate, I will play devils advocate though and ask then; how did it come to this, or DID it come to this? these people may have existed for , well a century.....or more...