ALICE and Economic Hardship in the United States
Peoples & Things
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How Do You Come Up With the Costs of Living?
The federal poverty level was developed 50, 60 years ago when Lyndon Johnson needed a measure for the war on poverty. It's basically that same number to death by inflation since. To address those criticisms, we have developed this household survival budget for every county in the country.
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