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http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/north_carolina/poverty-comment-riles-some-nc-lawmakers
$11,000 a year for a family of four = $211.54 per week or $7.55 per person per day.
How can someone who lives in Onslow County not think that people are living in extreme poverty? Enlisted men with families at Camp LeJeune live right around the poverty line. The whole damn county is a ramshackle trailer park. I guess $11,000 a year goes a long way down east.
Rep. George Cleveland, R-Onslow, said he was skeptical about a House committee report that read "there are an increasing number of children living in extreme poverty." Cleveland said he believed the government keeps redefining poverty "to make sure that we have a poverty class."
"We have no one in the state of North Carolina living in extreme poverty. We might governmentally say they are, but they're not," Cleveland said, pointing to developing countries where he said extreme poverty really exists. "Extreme poverty is that you're out there living on a dollar and a half day. I don't think we have anybody in North Carolina doing that."
Census figures show about 1.6 million people, or 17.5 percent of the state's population, were living in poverty based on federal guidelines in North Carolina in 2010, compared to 16.3 percent in 2009. About one in four children were living at or below the poverty level. More than 728,000 North Carolinians were living in what some experts label "deep poverty" in 2010, meaning they earn half the federal poverty level, or at the time about $11,000 for a family of four.
$11,000 a year for a family of four = $211.54 per week or $7.55 per person per day.
How can someone who lives in Onslow County not think that people are living in extreme poverty? Enlisted men with families at Camp LeJeune live right around the poverty line. The whole damn county is a ramshackle trailer park. I guess $11,000 a year goes a long way down east.