Wall Street Protests

[HappySqurriel]

VGhippy said:

Laurel Aitken said:

 

Right nowthe people considered poor in the USA are people with an anual income of less than $22,350 USD. That's not poor in most of the rest of the world!!!

Just to be fair that is the income for a family of 4 to be considered poor by the government, not individuals :P

Edit: For a sole individual in their own household it is under 11k

 

source: http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml

Being that McDonalds' starting wage is $8.30/hour, which works out to being (roughly) $16,500/year for a full time employee, how many individuals really earn less than $11,000/year unless they choose to? While it is not really an ideal thing, when I was younger the people I knew who didn't go to school often had 2 jobs (working in the range of 55+ hours per week) at a higher wage than that (this would be about 10 years ago), so I personally find it difficult to believe than many people are forced to live off of that little money