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Re:The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed by jl6 on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:10PM (#6888851)
It costs very little to merely survive. A warm coat and a bowl of soup twice a day is survival.
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Re:The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed by freehunter on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:04PM (#6890689)
The US government actually has a calculation on what the minimum cost of living is. There's the living wage, the poverty wage, and the minimum wage. For my city, two adults and two children is a hair shy of $20 for living wage and $10.50 for living at the poverty line. Minimum wage wouldn't even get you close to that.

For the record, the US government does not tend to view a warm coat and two bowls of soup to be surviving in the US.

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Re:The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed by talmand on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:55PM (#6889251)
"Vote for me and I'll be sure to change the law that says 'survival' is a warm shack and three bowls of soup a day."

"My opponent must not be elected because he'll take your warm coat away and prevent me from providing for your 'right' to two bowls of soup a day."

"Vote for me and I'll put real chicken in your broth!"

"My opponent calls this 'surviving'?"

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