From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 15:04:55 MDT
On 5/27/02 12:40 PM, "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
> Actually, I am pretty sure it is more like 20,000. Which is
> irrelevant in any case since in many parts of the country it is
> utterly impossible to support a family of 3 on $25,000.
In most parts of the country, it is not a huge burden to support a family of
3 on $25k. Don't extrapolate famously expensive locales to the rest of the
country; living in those places is distorting your perspective. In many
States and cities in the US, $25k is the average income, and the
uninteresting suburbs there are filled with people of modest means who are
doing alright. Sure, you won't live in opulence on $25k, but you don't pay
any taxes either, and most places where people actually make this much the
cost of living is a small fraction of what it is elsewhere. I grew up in
places like that and still frequent those areas, and it isn't "poverty" by a
long shot. It might be poverty if you are trying to live in Manhattan or
Silicon Valley, but that is a grossly biased sample.
$15k would be a more valid poverty line for a family of 3 in my opinion.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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