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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He really wasn't calculating it as a poverty level. More of a solid middle class level in a metro area.

I don't agree with the number, but I think the high cost of child care really screws up other poverty level numbers.[/quote]

I believe it goes deeper than that- he's calculated that this is the threshold that will prevent people from living "normal lives" - they won't get married or have children b/c of they won't be able to provide a stable roof over their kids heads or healthcare or healthy food.  this is the donut hole were you dont earn enough for any help but also dont earn enough to support a family. He's positing that a wage that ends a line of human beings - wont sustain life past one generation , is poverty level in the context of the modern United States and its GDP.  As in it's enough for you to live on but you wont feel able to continue your genetic line, it'll end with you without you wanting it to.  Procreation is a very strong biological impulse so if economic factors are strong enough to override that impulse it has to be something- whether you call it the poverty line or something else. I am not referring to childless by choice people- im talking about ppl who forego children b/c they are afraid they wont be able to provide. 
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