They didn’t just throw a dart at a wall full of post it notes with random numbers listed.
That’s the whole question at the heart of the discussion here, how to define the poverty line. The original article suggests $140,000 for a family of 4 in a suburb of a major city.
That’s not an unreasonable situation. The vast majority of Americans live in suburbs.
the poverty line isn’t about any of that.
it’s a financial threshold. it has says nothing about what people spend the money on, or don’t.
A financial threshold based on what?
They didn’t just throw a dart at a wall full of post it notes with random numbers listed.
That’s the whole question at the heart of the discussion here, how to define the poverty line. The original article suggests $140,000 for a family of 4 in a suburb of a major city.
That’s not an unreasonable situation. The vast majority of Americans live in suburbs.