A poverty so deep most Americans don't even know it exists. From Chicago to Cleveland to the Mississippi Delta, 1 in 25 households can be surviving on this little. The official poverty level is of course much higher than this.

There are people with needle marks on their arms and the natural assumption is that they are addicts, but in fact they could be selling their blood for cash income, the cash income that helps sustain them. And they employ all kinds of tricks to pass the medical that allows them to give blood, which then goes into plasma products for sale anywhere.

We hear about the food stamps system, but what you'll hear here is that it doesn't always help those who need it the most.
Plus the interesting fact that if you're caught selling your food stamps you could actually get a longer jail sentence than if you robbed a bank.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/living-on-$2-a-day/7574166

I don't think Clinton gives a stuff about this kind of thing. I think, or I want to believe, Trump might.
And Obama, the former social worker from Illinois, will be moving out of the White House into a mansion somewhere and no doubt doing his Tiger Woods impressions around the world.

bogarde73 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2016 at 11:43am:

And Obama, the former social worker from Illinois, will be moving out of the White House into a mansion somewhere and no doubt doing his Tiger Woods impressions around the world.

It can't happen soon enough. In fact, I'd be willing to help him start packing right now, while I still have some semblance of a country left.

I wouldn't be surprised if Obama's next job involved running the U.N. He seemingly has a deep-seated desire to lecture the world on what it ought to be doing different.

The USA is finished - their society is just too unfair.

bogarde73 wrote on Jul 17^th, 2016 at 11:43am:

A poverty so deep most Americans don't even know it exists. From Chicago to Cleveland to the Mississippi Delta, 1 in 25 households can be surviving on this little. The official poverty level is of course much higher than this. There are people with needle marks on their arms and the natural assumption is that they are addicts, but in fact they could be selling their blood for cash income, the cash income that helps sustain them. And they employ all kinds of tricks to pass the medical that allows them to give blood, which then goes into plasma products for sale anywhere. We hear about the food stamps system, but what you'll hear here is that it doesn't always help those who need it the most. Plus the interesting fact that if you're caught selling your food stamps you could actually get a longer jail sentence than if you robbed a bank. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/living-on-$2-a-day/7574166 I don't think Clinton gives a stuff about this kind of thing. I think, or I want to believe, Trump might. And Obama, the former social worker from Illinois, will be moving out of the White House into a mansion somewhere and no doubt doing his Tiger Woods impressions around the world.

Nobody will pay you for your blood, that stopped a long time ago because drunks and addicts sold their tainted blood to feed their habits.

Food stamps (EBT card) are sold for fifty cents on the dollar in their neighborhoods. If the seller is caught the worst that will happen is they could loss their free ride.

I'm assuming this researcher knows what he's talking about mort.
I think he's only suggesting the blood thing is an illustration of how far poverty has pushed some people.
Similarly with the food stamps. I think he was making the point that the penalties the law provides for selling them are potentially worse than bank robbery, not that anyone is actually going to jail.

Also, that $2 figure I think is per person per day. I might have made it sound like per household.

However, taking his research to be correct, your reaction illustrates what he says about the poverty being so bad that most people don't even know it exists.

The only people that might be able to survive on $2.00 a day are living in card board boxes.

Mortdooley wrote on Jul 18^th, 2016 at 12:18pm:

The only people that might be able to survive on $2.00 a day are living in card board boxes.

and you do have a large number of people living in cardboard boxes mort.

rhino wrote on Jul 18^th, 2016 at 12:57pm:

Mortdooley wrote on Jul 18th, 2016 at 12:18pm: The only people that might be able to survive on $2.00 a day are living in card board boxes. and you do have a large number of people living in cardboard boxes mort.

I do?