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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]50% FARMS...  A naive person might ask, "How is it that a city with so many high-income, high powered opportunities, where the brightest and most talented people from all over the country, and for that matter come from all over the world to work, has so many low-income families?"

I'll tell the truth that nobody wants to hear - it's the co-dependent clinging.  Low-income residents stay because of the overly generous social safety net to keep them here, and DC politicians cling to that infrastructure and keep it in place because they know they can control and manipulate those votes.

Everyone knows it, but nobody wants to admit it.[/quote]

I will completely agree with you on an anonymous board...lol
There is little motivation to get out of the low-income bracket to middle....where you get no help at all and are thrown to the wolves...might as well stay low SES where you are safe and sound, sometimes insurance, housing costs and childcare makes me wonder why we work so hard to be in the low middle[/quote]

I guess my two sisters  and I would kindly disagree. We grew up in DC.  With the assistance of Food stamps,  Medicaid and perhaps assistance we survived. As adults, not one of us has utilized those services. We all worked hard to become a part of the middle income. One is lower middle and the other is middle-middle. I would consider my HI of 240k upper middle. But I know on DCUM that is considered barely surviving.

You guys really need to check your biases and prejudices, for you no not what you type. There is no safety in poverty.  Only a fool would believe that.  And before you say my story is anecdotal, it is not.  I no many former classmates that have similar experiences. [/quote]

As the PP here - we are lower middle and your HHI is 4xs ours.  We are fine, in the real world outside of DC I would even consider us upper middle and we have no trouble paying our bills, but we do struggle to buy new clothes for the kids when they grow out of their old ones and my kids know that we don't buy anything at the super market that isn't on sale - honestly I wouldn't live differently if we did have more money.  I know that people can get out of SNAP, section 8 housing, medicaid and vouchers for childcare - but then once you're out of the net there is nothing and no gradual changes dependent on income.  There needs to be assistance to grow up instead of just a strict cutoff.[/quote]

You contradict yourself.  First, you don't live in DC, so how would you know what the poor people of DC think and feel.  Second, in your first post ou said there was no incentive or motivation to leave the low-income status and move to middle income.  Yet you turn around and state that you know that there are people who get out of poverty.  Do you argue just to argue?   [/quote]

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