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  1. Wall Street investor says poverty line $136.5K, those trying to escape see benefits disappear faster than wages increase

    Financial expert Michael W. Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is…
    #NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #ChildCare #DaveRamsey #Healthcare #healthcarecost #MichaelW.Green #MollieOrshansky #povertyline #U.S.DepartmentofHealthandHumanServices #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/306410/

  2. Wall Street investor says poverty line $136.5K, those trying to escape see benefits disappear faster than wages increase

    Financial expert Michael W. Green is making waves with a provocative claim: the official U.S. poverty line is…
    #NewsBeep #News #Economy #AU #Australia #Business #childcare #DaveRamsey #Healthcare #healthcarecost #MichaelW.Green #MollieOrshansky #povertyline #U.S.DepartmentofHealthandHumanServices
    newsbeep.com/au/336537/

  3. europesays.com/ie/223154/ Wall Street investor says poverty line $136.5K, those trying to escape see benefits disappear faster than wages increase #Business #ChildCare #DaveRamsey #Economy #Éire #HealthCare #HealthCareCost #IE #Ireland #MichaelW.Green #MollieOrshansky #PovertyLine #U.S.DepartmentOfHealthAndHumanServices

  4. While even the author of the original article does not feel that $140k is literally the new poverty line, his piece has prompted important conversations about "benefit cliffs" and what level of income is actually required for a family to cover the basics *without outside assistance.*
    What do you think??

    #PovertyLine #MDPPC

  5. The new wage lifts two-thirds of the workforce above Mexico’s family #povertyline, & above Mexico’s #minimumwage of about $1.71 per hour. A proposed nationwide shift to a 40-hour workweek without a reduction in pay (Mexico’s workweek is currently capped at 48 hours) would also mark a significant advance.

    labornotes.org/2025/04/unmoved

    #Mexico #GeneralMotors #LaborMovement #organize #autoworkers #Solidarity Silao #Guanajuato #unions SINTTIA

  6. Raising Jobseeker to $80 per day—in line with the Raise the Rate campaign—and indexing it to keep up with wages would cost $9.5 billion per year.

    This a fraction of the cost of superannuation tax concessions ($50 billion per year) or the Capital Gains Tax discount ($15 billion), both of which mainly benefit the richest Australians.

    australiainstitute.org.au/post

    #AUWU #breadline #costoflivingcrisis #dole #jobseeker #povertyline #RaiseTheRate #unemployedworkers

  7. American Geography

    Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled to hundreds of high poverty communities across the United States, concentrating on areas with poverty rates above 20%. He discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above this poverty line, through 46 states.

    #mattblack #photography #photographer #americangeography #photojournalism #photojournalist #mattblackphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bwphotography #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #schwarzweissfotografie #blackandwhite #americanlandscape #noirblanc #fotografia #fotografie #negroyblanco #povertyline

  8. American Geography

    Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled to hundreds of high poverty communities across the United States, concentrating on areas with poverty rates above 20%. He discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above this poverty line, through 46 states.

    #mattblack #photography #photographer #americangeography #photojournalism #photojournalist #mattblackphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bwphotography #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #schwarzweissfotografie #blackandwhite #americanlandscape #noirblanc #fotografia #fotografie #negroyblanco #povertyline

  9. American Geography

    Between 2014 and 2020, photographer Matt Black traveled to hundreds of high poverty communities across the United States, concentrating on areas with poverty rates above 20%. He discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above this poverty line, through 46 states.

    #mattblack #photography #photographer #americangeography #photojournalism #photojournalist #mattblackphotography #blackandwhitephotography #bwphotography #bwphoto #schwarzweiss #schwarzweissfotografie #blackandwhite #americanlandscape #noirblanc #fotografia #fotografie #negroyblanco #povertyline