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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're dirt poor for the area. DH and I are both PhD students living on stipends. I spend a lot of time on the internet because I need it for school. Our kid goes to Arlington Science Focus (it's a wonderful public school... I highly recommend it!). We live in a tiny, tiny apartment and cook every night. We never go out to eat.

We schedule our school stuff around her class schedule so that we don't have to pay for after-school care. 
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12:30 here -[b] ok, you're poor, I guess - but people that I think of as poor aren't PhD students.  They're lucky if they graduated from high school.  [/b]Does anyone else see what I mean here?[/quote]

But that's stereotyping. Poverty is $11,600 for a single person, $21,000 for family. That being said, in DC I would argue the poverty level is much higher than that probably (median income is $58,000 in DC compared to national $40,000). Poverty in rural Kansas is different than poverty in NYC or DC. Not everyone in poverty is uneducated.[/quote]

[b]Of course not everyone in poverty is uneducated.  That's not what I meant.[/b]  But when I think of true poverty, I think of people working three jobs to keep food on the table and keep their family warm, etc, not studying for a PhD.  Not that I think the PhD poster isn't struggling with money.  Not sure why no one is seeing what I mean by that.  [/quote]

Maybe because you out and out said *Poor People are lucky to have graduated from HS*.   I found your meaning to be pretty clear.  [/quote]

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