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Originally Posted by AGDee
You do realize that $9 an hour is poverty level for most families, don't you?
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A family does not make 9$ an hour.
A person does.
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You do realize that a person cannot live on $9/hr?
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On the contrary,
9$ is 360 dollars a week. 18, 720 a year. The per capita income in my town is 15,000, the median income for males is 28k, and the median income for women is 21 k. So I guess roughly 40% of females "can't live".
Plenty do live on that amount of cash. Now if the government would remove themselves from our wallet, 18,720 would be a fairly easy existence. Unfortunately it does not do this.
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Last edited by Elephant Walk; 11-04-2010 at 11:06 AM.
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