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Subject: RE: [OT] : the new working poor
Author: Michael Madigan
Posted: 2004/10/31 13:00:38
 
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No, it doesn't add up. Coming out of college, I had a room mate.

10 bucks an hour is 1600 a month. Now if 2 people are renting a
place, that's 500 bucks each.

Can you have a family live on it? NO. Should you have a family?
NO.




--- Virgil.Bierschwale /at/ assurant D.OT com wrote:

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> Asking price for rent is around 1,000 and up and to buy is
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> Alan Wyne wrote:
> > Well the term "new working poor" implies that people not
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> > catagorized as "working Poor" will soon become "working
> poor", hence
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> People who are just surviving today won't be in a few more
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> countries navigation doesn't get realigned. The checks and
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> Stephen Russell
> S.R. & Associates
> Memphis, TN 38115
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