Did you know our Fed poverty line is based on 1955 spending, & the way we calculate it hasn’t changed since 1964?
It assumes 1 earner & a mother home full-time.
It doesn’t include cost of childcare, geographic cost of living, or healthcare.
Some predict it should be *$38k/yr.*
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"We are at our richest point that we’ve ever been, but we’ve also been our most unequal."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hopes to do for the nation’s poor what she has done with health care and climate politics with the unveiling of a new anti-poverty package. nyti.ms/2kZdpwN
