HDF 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter Podcast: Lyndon B. Johnson, Subsidized Housing, List Of True Blood Characters

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Human Development and Family Sciences
• Course: HDF 304
• Professor: M Gleason

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Maryann matthew single mother raising teenage son living in the bronx. Works 52 hours a week and earns 23,000 on a good year. Lives in subsidized housing, gets food stamps and other help but is still struggling. Maryann considers herself to be poor but the government does not. He does(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider the struggli(cid:374)g (cid:272)ollege stude(cid:374)t to (cid:271)e so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho a(cid:272)tually is struggli(cid:374)g with poverty. According to government there are 46. 5 million americans who are officially poor. Anyone who studies poverty, agrees that how we come about estimating this figure is wrong. This has been agreed upon for decades. (cid:1005)99(cid:1009): the po(cid:448)erty (cid:373)easure did(cid:374)"t really (cid:373)easure po(cid:448)erty (cid:448)ery (cid:449)ell. So many things are tied to the poverty level: food stamps, medicaid, subsidized housing, federal aid, lunch programs. The go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t"s po(cid:448)erty (cid:373)easure does i(cid:374)(cid:272)lude (cid:373)iddle (cid:272)lass (cid:272)ollege kids (cid:271)ut (cid:374)ot si(cid:374)gle parents in subsidized housing. How did we arrive here at such a flawed measure: