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The "working poor" are those who work full time but still live below the poverty line of $15,141 for a family of four.
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Among the working poor are schoolteachers, chefs, computer-maintenance workers, and airline flight attendants.
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Near Disney World in Florida is the community of Kissimmee. Behind the souvenir shops and motels live America's working poor. The lawns are mowed, and the kids can play safely in the street. The neighborhood looks like a solid, secure all-American neighborhood, but if you look closely at the employed adults, you will see weariness in their eyes, for most of them work at 2 or 3 jobs and even then, they are barely able to pay the bills.
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Linda Hargroves came home at 10:30 one night last week after finishing the second of her two jobs. Her 14-year-old son greeted her with news that he had been selected to compete in a statewide gymnastics event and needed $75 to pay for the trip. Hargroves had to tell him that he couldn't go-she had no dollars to spare.
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The working poor and the unemployed poor are alike in one respect: they fear a serious medical problem will ruin their chances of ever achieving financial security.
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"It doesn't take much in the way of an unforeseen circumstance to spin these people right out of control," says Anita Beaty, director of Atlanta's Task Force for the Homeless. "You cannot pay rent and child care on minimum wage."
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If you are a college graduate, your chances of living in poverty are less than 2%, but if you are a high-school dropout, the chances are 20%.
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The working poor are like trapeze artists struggling to maintain their balance on a high wire.
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