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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a Wikipedia article about a town they took over in upstate New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiryas_Joel,_New_York
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WTF? 75% of the town lives below poverty level. 40% on food stamps. Highest rate of poverty of any town in the country?! Jesus.

“The median income for a household in the village was $15,138, and the median income for a family was $15,372. Males had a median income of $25,043, versus $16,364 for females. The per capita income for the village was $4,355. About 61.7% of families and 62.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 63.9% of those under age 18 and 50.5% of those age 65 or over.

According to 2008 census figures, the village has the highest poverty rate in the nation, and the largest percentage of residents who receive food stamps. More than five-eighths of Kiryas Joel residents live below the federal poverty line, and more than 40 percent receive food stamps, according to the American Community Survey, a U.S. Census Bureau study of every place in the country with 20,000 residents or more“

So everyone is on govt handouts?[/quote]

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