poverty guidlines

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Try a small, 1 bedroom apartment in Los Angeles, you would be paying around $1,000 for such.

Or EXTREMELY tiny studio in Brooklyn, NY for 1100.

If you made the poverty level you couldn't pay your rent.

or $1100 a month for the mortgage on a 1700 square foot house in kansas, but you hate kansas

[sunandmoon 450]

maybe the poverty guidelines should apply to all getting a marriage, not just those going thru the immigration process. just an opinion.

[edsperfect 25]

maybe the poverty guidelines should apply to all getting a marriage, not just those going thru the immigration process. just an opinion.

That's npt a bad idea!!! Maybe a class and license to have children also. We mat be onto a new future here

[angeljan 0]

Whereas a small one bedroom apartment here is about $300/month.

*shrugs*

However, keep in mind that these ARE the POVERTY guidelines. If you make that little, you're probably on public assistance. Or you live in a shack in the hills.

Not everyone can have a good paying job but yet we work our butts off. So for your information some of us don't make that much and i do not receieve public assistance of no sort nor do i live in a damn shack in the hills I live in a very nice house with 5 bedrooms in the city. So you see not all of us are what you mark us as. I work hard for a living to support my kids and reading some of these postings really upsets me that there are people out there that think just because u don't make the poverty guidelines that your a no good person and live off the government, NOT!!!!!!!!!. OPEN YOUR EYES NOT ALL OF US ARE LIKE THAT SORRY!

[Caladan 19]

If you make that little and have a foreign fiancé, it's quite likely that you're pursuing a doctoral program, are a law student, or a medical student.

Oh, the poor slackers, blights on society, those doctors.

I live quite comfortably on $19K a year. It isn't rich, and I have to be thrifty. But it works, and I haven't accepted a damn dime from the government. And it'll work when C. moves here, though money will be tighter, which is why he's moving down with half of the year's rent in cash. (Basically, the biggest additional cost with him here will be rent, as I won't be able to have a roommate.) Planning ahead.

But onto the crazy suggestions:

Sure, let's have an income requirement for marriage. All that means is you have more people living together without marrying. Let's have a requirement for having kids. How you gonna enforce that? Forced abortions? Mandatory monthly menstrual proof? Mandatory contraception?

[de_sjiem 0]

maybe the poverty guidelines should apply to all getting a marriage, not just those going thru the immigration process. just an opinion.

You forget that its generally cheaper for 2 people to live together than to live apart.. (2 incomes and one place instead of 2 incomes in 2 places..)

[PlatyPius 5]

Whereas a small one bedroom apartment here is about $300/month.

*shrugs*

However, keep in mind that these ARE the POVERTY guidelines. If you make that little, you're probably on public assistance. Or you live in a shack in the hills.

Not everyone can have a good paying job but yet we work our butts off. So for your information some of us don't make that much and i do not receieve public assistance of no sort nor do i live in a damn shack in the hills I live in a very nice house with 5 bedrooms in the city. So you see not all of us are what you mark us as. I work hard for a living to support my kids and reading some of these postings really upsets me that there are people out there that think just because u don't make the poverty guidelines that your a no good person and live off the government, NOT!!!!!!!!!. OPEN YOUR EYES NOT ALL OF US ARE LIKE THAT SORRY!

You might want to chill out a bit.....I'm one of the ones who DOESN'T have a problem with people who make very little....me being one of them. That reply was in reference to people who were saying that an apartment in their area is $700+/month at a minimum. If a person is making the poverty level income and lives in an area where rent is $700/month at the lowest, then they HAVE to be getting some kind of assistance, live in the boonies, or have several kids. The 'several kids' increases the level at which your income is considered poverty level, allowing a person to afford rent on that apartment.

I don't have a high-paying job. I work my ####### off. I receive "assistance" in that I inherited my house. Read my other post in this topic. I used to make $5000/year. I KNOW about being poor.

[angeljan 0]

Whereas a small one bedroom apartment here is about $300/month.

*shrugs*

However, keep in mind that these ARE the POVERTY guidelines. If you make that little, you're probably on public assistance. Or you live in a shack in the hills.

Not everyone can have a good paying job but yet we work our butts off. So for your information some of us don't make that much and i do not receieve public assistance of no sort nor do i live in a damn shack in the hills I live in a very nice house with 5 bedrooms in the city. So you see not all of us are what you mark us as. I work hard for a living to support my kids and reading some of these postings really upsets me that there are people out there that think just because u don't make the poverty guidelines that your a no good person and live off the government, NOT!!!!!!!!!. OPEN YOUR EYES NOT ALL OF US ARE LIKE THAT SORRY!

You might want to chill out a bit.....I'm one of the ones who DOESN'T have a problem with people who make very little....me being one of them. That reply was in reference to people who were saying that an apartment in their area is $700+/month at a minimum. If a person is making the poverty level income and lives in an area where rent is $700/month at the lowest, then they HAVE to be getting some kind of assistance, live in the boonies, or have several kids. The 'several kids' increases the level at which your income is considered poverty level, allowing a person to afford rent on that apartment.

I don't have a high-paying job. I work my ####### off. I receive "assistance" in that I inherited my house. Read my other post in this topic. I used to make $5000/year. I KNOW about being poor.

I appologize, There are just so many people that are saying that if you don't make that guideline there is no way my husband will be coming over here and my husband means everything to me and my family. So again I am sorry!

[markste 0]

Whereas a small one bedroom apartment here is about $300/month.

*shrugs*

However, keep in mind that these ARE the POVERTY guidelines. If you make that little, you're probably on public assistance. Or you live in a shack in the hills.

Not everyone can have a good paying job but yet we work our butts off. So for your information some of us don't make that much and i do not receieve public assistance of no sort nor do i live in a damn shack in the hills I live in a very nice house with 5 bedrooms in the city. So you see not all of us are what you mark us as. I work hard for a living to support my kids and reading some of these postings really upsets me that there are people out there that think just because u don't make the poverty guidelines that your a no good person and live off the government, NOT!!!!!!!!!. OPEN YOUR EYES NOT ALL OF US ARE LIKE THAT SORRY!

You might want to chill out a bit.....I'm one of the ones who DOESN'T have a problem with people who make very little....me being one of them. That reply was in reference to people who were saying that an apartment in their area is $700+/month at a minimum. If a person is making the poverty level income and lives in an area where rent is $700/month at the lowest, then they HAVE to be getting some kind of assistance, live in the boonies, or have several kids. The 'several kids' increases the level at which your income is considered poverty level, allowing a person to afford rent on that apartment.

I don't have a high-paying job. I work my ####### off. I receive "assistance" in that I inherited my house. Read my other post in this topic. I used to make $5000/year. I KNOW about being poor.

I appologize, There are just so many people that are saying that if you don't make that guideline there is no way my husband will be coming over here and my husband means everything to me and my family. So again I am sorry!

the Gov't Guidlines in my opinion are another way to make the better off people feel more important if I went by the guidelines I would be considered quite wealthy here in Western Wisconsin where most jbs start out at $6.50 an hour

[MichelleandCraig 1]

Yeah, the WI job market *is* pretty rough...I worked at a place for 8 years (nearly) here in northern WI and was making 10.50/hr. It was the one of the highest-paid jobs in the county...some of the only ones making more were the school employees and county workers. Crazy, hey? My AGI was only over 20,000 a couple of years, and that was after I worked a LOT of Saturdays for OT. I was a single parent and never got child support or public assistance...and we managed quite nicely. Of course we would have like to have more money to do more, etc. but hey...when you consider how some people have to live in this world, I consider that we were quite wealthy, actually. Perspective is all.... M.

[KarenCee 3]

Whereas a small one bedroom apartment here is about $300/month.

*shrugs*

However, keep in mind that these ARE the POVERTY guidelines. If you make that little, you're probably on public assistance. Or you live in a shack in the hills.

Well now Larry, I have to disagree with that statement. I have *never* been on public assistance. I make just above the poverty guidelines and that includes the meager child support I receive. I don't live in a shack either, even though the house is small and very old. It seems that everyone's definition of "poverty" is subjective. Even the government's! I remember at one time former President Clinton making the statement of what his idea of poverty was and at the time I was *below* the poverty level according to his definition. However, with all that said, I don't think I make so little that I should be banned, barred, or otherwise denied the right to be with my beloved (thank god the OP isn't in charge of the poverty guidelines!) just because I make a certain amount! It hasn't been easy, but we've survived AND haven't asked anyone for help NOR have I applied for any kind of assistance. My rent is $400 a month on a two bedroom, one bath house...in a high touristy area...and all our bills are paid...and we eat well...we just know how to do it, frugally.

For those that make a lot of money, I'm very happy for you! But don't sit there and say that if a person makes X amount that they can't support another person. That's a rather judgmental statement and a moot one at best....the government has already decided that level.

BTW, I *do* live in the hills...the Appalachians.

Edited December 17, 2006 by KarenCee