What Are You Doing Right Now? (982 Viewers)

[.zero]

In Britain, poverty is defined on household income and the resulting implications. I know its different in other countries, the poverty experienced in developing nations is completely different, British poverty is like living as a king compared to how some people live. How is poverty measured in the US?

you're asking the wrong person but maybe someone else here like Greg or E can answer that better than i could.

 

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[Ford Prefect]

Not really but I guess its on the right track. I am not a gun nut at all and my car is far more important to me. I have a gun, they are not a passion of mine



How does it not? I've been to Texas before compared to its populace I am a tree hugging liberal pussy, well I guess I should have said Andy instead of you

Im tired and misread what you had said.

 

[X Æ A-12]

Im tired and misread what you had said.

Ok, I should have been more clear anyway. I am not a gun collector and I rarely fire my own but I still think gun control is extremely flawed.

 

[Ford Prefect]

Ok, I should have been more clear anyway. I am not a gun collector and I rarely fire my own but I still think gun control is extremely flawed.

You think trying to control guns is, or the way it is done?

 

[.zero]

thank god i can walk to my appointment

 

[X Æ A-12]

You think trying to control guns is, or the way it is done?

The way it is done, gun control to a degree is an absolute necessity but people with more knowledge about firearms need to be the ones making these decisions

 

[Bjerknes]

you're asking the wrong person but maybe someone else here like Greg or E can answer that better than i could.

Might be households making under $20,000 a year.

 

[X Æ A-12]

Check this for American poverty info:http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/povdef.html

 

[swag]

you're asking the wrong person but maybe someone else here like Greg or E can answer that better than i could.

It's based on income, persons in family, and some geography.

Check this for American poverty info:http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/povdef.html

Or more here too:

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml

http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq1.htm

 

[Ford Prefect]

Check this for American poverty info:http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/povdef.html

Seems similar to the way we measure poverty, its annoying that its such a subjective term, as i think dru pointed out on the last page that some people would get put in that bracket when they wernt in what would socially be considered povery, whereas some people above the fresholds suggested could be in what would be deemed poverty.

 

[Bjerknes]

Geography is key. For instance, if you live in Manhattan making $50,000 a year, you're basically considered poor because most rents are thousands of dollars per month there.

 

[Ford Prefect]

im gonna crash, kyle if you find that report i would love to read it! later people.

 

[X Æ A-12]

im gonna crash, kyle if you find that report i would love to read it! later people.

Alright, later man. Don't get your hopes up about that report, I doubt I still have it

 

[swag]

Geography is key. For instance, if you live in Manhattan making $50,000 a year, you're basically considered poor because most rents are thousands of dollars per month there.

But the Fed is pretty good (bad) about presuming the cost of living in, say, rural Alabama is the same as in New York City.

I ran into this a lot when it came to graduate school grants when going to an urban college in UC Berkeley, right next to some of the most expensive real estate prices in the country. I could have been going to grad school on a floating, burning garbage barge off the coast of Louisiana and would have received the same check.

 

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[Bjerknes]

But the Fed is pretty good (bad) about presuming the cost of living in, say, rural Alabama is the same as in New York City.

I ran into this a lot when it came to graduate school grants when going to an urban college in UC Berkeley, right next to some of the most expensive real estate prices in the country. I could have been going to grad school on a floating, burning garbage barge off the coast of Louisiana and would have received the same check.

Good enough for government work.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Later, Sammy.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

My deck is on fire with passion of Greg.

 

[X Æ A-12]

Is that like passion of the Christ but gayer?

 

[Bjerknes]

Mikey, are you going to try MAG later tonight?