This just in from The Huffington Post:
The Economic Policy Institute has just updated their cost-of-living budgets to reflect how much a family needs to earn to get by in 2013.
Looking at over 600 locations and estimating community-specific costs, EPI found that families need more than twice the amount of the federal poverty line to have a secure yet modest living standard.
"Our family budget calculations show that the real costs for families to live modest -- not even middle class -- lives are much higher than conventional estimates show and virtually impossible for families living on minimum-wage jobs," said Elise Gould, the Economic Policy Institute director of health policy research.
Read more here.
Tell Mr.Britt to check out Bill O'Reilly's talking points of yesterday. Also, the Black community needs new role models, Sharpton snd Jackson are an embarrassment.
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