Buffy the Psych Prof on Nostr: “In 2022, the official threshold for poverty was $13,590 per year for one person ...
“In 2022, the official threshold for poverty was $13,590 per year for one person and $27,750 for a family of four — with about 38 million Americans falling below that threshold. That number alone should shock the conscience of a nation as wealthy and developed as ours. But the truth is that, from the beginning, the official poverty line has been based on an arbitrary and shallow understanding of human need.”
https://tomdispatch.com/abandoning-the-poor/Published at
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