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Been saying this for years: The tax poverty line is Too Low - WAY TOO LOW👇
#PovertyLine #RaiseThePovertyLine
@MorePerfectUnion
Been saying this for years: The tax poverty line is Too Low - WAY TOO LOW👇
#PovertyLine #RaiseThePovertyLine
@MorePerfectUnion
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Been saying this for years: The tax poverty line is Too Low - WAY TOO LOW👇
#PovertyLine #RaiseThePovertyLine
@MorePerfectUnion
Been saying this for years: The tax poverty line is Too Low - WAY TOO LOW👇
#PovertyLine #RaiseThePovertyLine
@MorePerfectUnion
🧵 The U.S. Census Bureau reported median household income at $83,730 in 2024 (released in September 2025).
@50% = $41,865 is the actual #PovertyLine for a single adult U S. household, using the OECD Poverty Formula.
@50% = $41,865 is the actual #PovertyLine for a single adult U S. household, using the OECD Poverty Formula.
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
🧵 The U.S. Census Bureau reported median household income at $83,730 in 2024 (released in September 2025).
@50% = $41,865 is the actual #PovertyLine for a single adult U S. household, using the OECD Poverty Formula.
@50% = $41,865 is the actual #PovertyLine for a single adult U S. household, using the OECD Poverty Formula.
3/6 🚨👊 The poverty line is set at $26,500 for a family of four 📊. But let's be real, that's not a living wage 🤦♂️. People are struggling to make ends meet, and it's fucking unacceptable 🚫💔. #LivingWage #PovertyLine 🤕
January 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
3/6 🚨👊 The poverty line is set at $26,500 for a family of four 📊. But let's be real, that's not a living wage 🤦♂️. People are struggling to make ends meet, and it's fucking unacceptable 🚫💔. #LivingWage #PovertyLine 🤕
been thinking about this
dnc politics this century has been: promising a tepid policy, and delivering something worse
what if its the opposite, what if, for simplified example, someone living under 4x povertyline accepts the 0.5% chance, and finds out after a hospital visit that it's 0% for them?
dnc politics this century has been: promising a tepid policy, and delivering something worse
what if its the opposite, what if, for simplified example, someone living under 4x povertyline accepts the 0.5% chance, and finds out after a hospital visit that it's 0% for them?
yeah and the way you make that the bullshit answer is that for real when you really delve down into it, it's more complicated e.g. 0.5% chance is the median chance on a scale that runs from 100% over a certain percentile of income down to 0% under another
July 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
been thinking about this
dnc politics this century has been: promising a tepid policy, and delivering something worse
what if its the opposite, what if, for simplified example, someone living under 4x povertyline accepts the 0.5% chance, and finds out after a hospital visit that it's 0% for them?
dnc politics this century has been: promising a tepid policy, and delivering something worse
what if its the opposite, what if, for simplified example, someone living under 4x povertyline accepts the 0.5% chance, and finds out after a hospital visit that it's 0% for them?
Australia needs [RENT STRIKE] [PEOPLE OVER PROFIT] as more than one third under the #Povertyline the rest doing it tough #CostOfLivingCrisis #rentstrike #peopleoverprofit bsky.app/profile/tuhm...
PERIOD👏🏾 We all need to come together and do this bc this shit is ridiculous
January 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Australia needs [RENT STRIKE] [PEOPLE OVER PROFIT] as more than one third under the #Povertyline the rest doing it tough #CostOfLivingCrisis #rentstrike #peopleoverprofit bsky.app/profile/tuhm...
Anyone with more than 100 million in assets is plenty rich enough. Poor is whatever the povertyline in a particular country is. But I'm willing to move these goalposts if necessary. 10 million in assets is quite wealthy as well.
March 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Anyone with more than 100 million in assets is plenty rich enough. Poor is whatever the povertyline in a particular country is. But I'm willing to move these goalposts if necessary. 10 million in assets is quite wealthy as well.
Weekly Work Hours to Stay Above #PovertyLine (OECD Data)
December 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Weekly Work Hours to Stay Above #PovertyLine (OECD Data)
Where he is 100% right, is the povertyline calculation is out dated, and inaccurate. 31k is way too low. And there is a trap as you go up the income scale. To fully participate in the modern economy at the basic level, the number for a family of 4 is much much higher.
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Where he is 100% right, is the povertyline calculation is out dated, and inaccurate. 31k is way too low. And there is a trap as you go up the income scale. To fully participate in the modern economy at the basic level, the number for a family of 4 is much much higher.
It would be interesting to know how #Canada and the Provinces calculate the #PovertyLine
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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking
It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off
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November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It would be interesting to know how #Canada and the Provinces calculate the #PovertyLine
3/10 Davison survives on less than $1,500/month from provincial disability, early pension, and workplace injury payments. The federal benefit was supposed to provide up to $200 monthly—instead, he's received just over $100 across two months.
"Half a bag of groceries"
#PovertyLine #DisabilitySupport
"Half a bag of groceries"
#PovertyLine #DisabilitySupport
September 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
3/10 Davison survives on less than $1,500/month from provincial disability, early pension, and workplace injury payments. The federal benefit was supposed to provide up to $200 monthly—instead, he's received just over $100 across two months.
"Half a bag of groceries"
#PovertyLine #DisabilitySupport
"Half a bag of groceries"
#PovertyLine #DisabilitySupport
Enquanto isso, no Canadá, algumas bolsas de pós deixam os alunos abaixo da linha de pobreza: https://www.utgsu.ca/committees-caucuses/research-education-governance-committee/povertyline/
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June 5, 2015 at 4:42 PM
Enquanto isso, no Canadá, algumas bolsas de pós deixam os alunos abaixo da linha de pobreza: https://www.utgsu.ca/committees-caucuses/research-education-governance-committee/povertyline/
Single Mom Perfectly Explains to #Congress Why the U.S. #PovertyLine Needs a Total #Rehaul
www.upworthy.com/poverty-line... #USPoverty #WorkingClass #Poor
www.upworthy.com/poverty-line... #USPoverty #WorkingClass #Poor
Single mom perfectly explains to Congress why the U.S. poverty line needs a total rehaul
Amy Jo Hutchison is a single mother of two living in West Virginia, and a community organizer, who has also lived in poverty, gave an impassioned speech, calling out Congress for being completely out ...
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February 5, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Single Mom Perfectly Explains to #Congress Why the U.S. #PovertyLine Needs a Total #Rehaul
www.upworthy.com/poverty-line... #USPoverty #WorkingClass #Poor
www.upworthy.com/poverty-line... #USPoverty #WorkingClass #Poor
9/11 THE ALBERTA NDP's REBUTTAL: "LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE"
👉 Christina Gray: "Thousands of families make the minimum wage in Alberta, and they’re still living below the poverty line, and they are unable to lift themselves out of poverty." 👈
#PovertyLine #AbPoli #AbLeg #UCPfail #MinimumWage
👉 Christina Gray: "Thousands of families make the minimum wage in Alberta, and they’re still living below the poverty line, and they are unable to lift themselves out of poverty." 👈
#PovertyLine #AbPoli #AbLeg #UCPfail #MinimumWage
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
9/11 THE ALBERTA NDP's REBUTTAL: "LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE"
👉 Christina Gray: "Thousands of families make the minimum wage in Alberta, and they’re still living below the poverty line, and they are unable to lift themselves out of poverty." 👈
#PovertyLine #AbPoli #AbLeg #UCPfail #MinimumWage
👉 Christina Gray: "Thousands of families make the minimum wage in Alberta, and they’re still living below the poverty line, and they are unable to lift themselves out of poverty." 👈
#PovertyLine #AbPoli #AbLeg #UCPfail #MinimumWage
PovertyLine Update: I was finally able to cancel my subacription to @nytimes.com after literally 3½ hours on my phone — a feat that I had aimed to accomplish 6 months ago. I dont have any political beef with #NYT or any problem with their journalism. What I have is a money problem [cont'd 1/3] 🧵
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
PovertyLine Update: I was finally able to cancel my subacription to @nytimes.com after literally 3½ hours on my phone — a feat that I had aimed to accomplish 6 months ago. I dont have any political beef with #NYT or any problem with their journalism. What I have is a money problem [cont'd 1/3] 🧵
ICYMI
Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage w a #povertyline that should be $140,000 n the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it.
Why Social Security is way unattainable at $25000. COLA is now $140000. Women have to self enslave to abuse to subsist
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Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage w a #povertyline that should be $140,000 n the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it.
Why Social Security is way unattainable at $25000. COLA is now $140000. Women have to self enslave to abuse to subsist
fortune.com/2025/11/29/p...
Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage with a poverty line that should be $140,000 and the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it | Fortune
“If the crisis threshold—the floor below which families cannot function—is honestly updated to current spending patterns, it lands at $140,000.”
fortune.com
September 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
ICYMI
Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage w a #povertyline that should be $140,000 n the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it.
Why Social Security is way unattainable at $25000. COLA is now $140000. Women have to self enslave to abuse to subsist
fortune.com/2025/11/29/p...
Wall Street strategist explains today’s political rage w a #povertyline that should be $140,000 n the ‘Valley of Death’ trapping people below it.
Why Social Security is way unattainable at $25000. COLA is now $140000. Women have to self enslave to abuse to subsist
fortune.com/2025/11/29/p...
Is the official poverty line a fiction? Most Americans struggle to afford a basic life.
The official poverty line is $31,200.
#PovertyLine #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis
The official poverty line is $31,200.
#PovertyLine #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis
The $140,000 Poverty Line: The Real Cost of Living in America
The official poverty line is $31,200. The REAL cost of living? $140,000. 52% of American families are actually 'in poverty.'
regen-fin.com
August 10, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Is the official poverty line a fiction? Most Americans struggle to afford a basic life.
The official poverty line is $31,200.
#PovertyLine #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis
The official poverty line is $31,200.
#PovertyLine #CostOfLiving #HousingCrisis
Extreme poverty ‘down by a quarter’ since 2012 as @WorldBank considers new poverty metrics - http://on.ft.com/1VxxWDq
Extreme poverty ‘down by a quarter’ since 2012
200m people now above a new povertyline of $1.90 a day, s...
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December 6, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Extreme poverty ‘down by a quarter’ since 2012 as @WorldBank considers new poverty metrics - http://on.ft.com/1VxxWDq
This will help my monthly bills by getting me closer to the povertyline, But is a small step above a strongly worded email nd gives Muskrat an easy target for his tech bros. It will take them less than a minute to scream that the increase is more waste on top of waste and pull back even more.
April 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This will help my monthly bills by getting me closer to the povertyline, But is a small step above a strongly worded email nd gives Muskrat an easy target for his tech bros. It will take them less than a minute to scream that the increase is more waste on top of waste and pull back even more.
22.5% of all Kentuckians live under the #povertyline, and a lot of times it’s our furry friends who suffer for it by not getting the vaccines they need.
This Saturday the Animal Care Society will give free vaccines to #dogs and #cats in Louisville.
Find out more here:
This Saturday the Animal Care Society will give free vaccines to #dogs and #cats in Louisville.
Find out more here:
Take Your Pet To Get A Free Vaccine This Weekend
The free event is this Saturday, April 6 from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m.
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April 4, 2024 at 9:56 PM
22.5% of all Kentuckians live under the #povertyline, and a lot of times it’s our furry friends who suffer for it by not getting the vaccines they need.
This Saturday the Animal Care Society will give free vaccines to #dogs and #cats in Louisville.
Find out more here:
This Saturday the Animal Care Society will give free vaccines to #dogs and #cats in Louisville.
Find out more here:
Michael Green's essay argues that the U.S. poverty line is outdated, underestimating modern living costs and essential expenses. His work challenges our assumptions about economic stability for millions. #PovertyLine #AffordabilityCrisis #EconomicInequality
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Michael Green's essay argues that the U.S. poverty line is outdated, underestimating modern living costs and essential expenses. His work challenges our assumptions about economic stability for millions. #PovertyLine #AffordabilityCrisis #EconomicInequality
The hypocritical environmentalist uses gas appliances, drives a car, or flies in a plane.
I will buy an induction stove! #ImGenZ #PovertyLine #GasAppliances #ShouldBeBanned
I will buy an induction stove! #ImGenZ #PovertyLine #GasAppliances #ShouldBeBanned
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The hypocritical environmentalist uses gas appliances, drives a car, or flies in a plane.
I will buy an induction stove! #ImGenZ #PovertyLine #GasAppliances #ShouldBeBanned
I will buy an induction stove! #ImGenZ #PovertyLine #GasAppliances #ShouldBeBanned
While just 1% of white DC children are in families with incomes below the poverty line, it's a whopping 33% for Black children. That's a low bar: in 2024 a family of 3 making just 26k a year would still be above the povertyline https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines
December 17, 2024 at 4:55 PM
While just 1% of white DC children are in families with incomes below the poverty line, it's a whopping 33% for Black children. That's a low bar: in 2024 a family of 3 making just 26k a year would still be above the povertyline https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines