It's common to imagine poverty as the person holding a sign at the intersection or the person who refuses to work and sleeps under the bridge, because as most know, these persons do exist. However, those individuals make up only a small percentage of people living in poverty. In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor reported at least 10 million people who worked but were still below the U.S. poverty line in the year 2011 (See also, How Expensive It Is To Be Poor, Charles Blow 2014). We [...]
