Can you agree with these statements?:
- I know which churches and sections of town have the best rummage sales.
- I know which rummage sales have "bag sales" and when.
- I know which grocery stores' garbage bins can be accessed for thrown-away food.
- I know how to get someone out of jail.
- I know how to physically fight and defend myself physically.
- I know how to get a gun, even if I have a police record.
- I know how to keep my clothes from being stolen at the Laundromat.
- I know what problems to look for in a used car.
- I know how to live without a checking account.
- I know how to live without electricity and a phone.
- I know how to use a knife as scissors.
- I can entertain a group of friends with my personality and my stories.
- I know what to do when I don't have money to pay the bills.
- I know how to move in half a day.
- I know how to get and use food stamps or an electronic card for benefits.
- I know where the free medical clinics are.
- I am very good at trading and bartering.
- I can get by without a car.
From A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D
this is crazy...I do know how to get foodstamps though...Did you hear that if the min wage had raised with inflastion, min wage would currently be about $16.00, so technically everyone who is paid less than that is living below the poverty line...interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat's true. But the way that they determine the poverty "line" is completely backdated. I just read in an Opposing Viewpoints book that they determine it by means of food and how much food a family or people would need to survive. I don't think food alone is indicative of needs being met. It's been this way since around the time FDR was working on fixing the Great Depression.
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