ReallyMeow
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146 million? thats a fair question:
U.S. Poverty: Census Finds Nearly Half Of Americans Are Poor Or Low-Income
The appeal that there is some sort of low rent, cheap living nirvana out there is a fable designed to dull your empathy. You cant say to get a better job when low income jobs outnumber "middle class" jobs.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf
page 5:
U.S. Poverty: Census Finds Nearly Half Of Americans Are Poor Or Low-Income
About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty. Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population.
The appeal that there is some sort of low rent, cheap living nirvana out there is a fable designed to dull your empathy. You cant say to get a better job when low income jobs outnumber "middle class" jobs.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf
page 5:
Median family household income
declined by 1.7 percent in real
terms between 2010 and 2011
to $62,273. The change in the
median income of nonfamily
households was not statistically
significant (Table 1).