Evart

Their father, John Nailor, owns a computer repair business in Evart, Michigan but makes less than $22,314 a year, the poverty level for a family of four. “If it weren’t for food stamps and the income tax credit, I don’t know where we’d be,” he said. “We would be lost.”

Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Their father, John Nailor, owns a computer repair business in Evart, Michigan but makes less than $22,314 a year, the poverty level for a family of four. “If it weren’t for food stamps and the income tax credit, I don’t know where we’d be,” he said. “We would be lost.”

Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Children like three-year-old Emily Nailor of Evart, Michigan, who lives with her four-year-old sister Amanda and their parents John and Sarah, who earn less than $22,314 a year, the official poverty guideline for a family of four. “If it weren’t for food stamps and the income tax credit, I don’t know where we’d be,” John said.

Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Their father, John Nailor, owns a computer repair business in Evart, Michigan but makes less than $22,314 a year, the poverty level for a family of four. “If it weren’t for food stamps and the income tax credit, I don’t know where we’d be,” he said. “We would be lost.”

Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Children like three-year-old Emily Nailor of Evart, Michigan, who lives with her four-year-old sister Amanda and their parents John and Sarah, who earn less than $22,314 a year, the official poverty guideline for a family of four. “If it weren’t for food stamps and the income tax credit, I don’t know where we’d be,” John said.

Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid Marian Wright Edelman 2011

Children like three-year-old Emily Nailor of Evart, Michigan, who lives with her four-year-old sister Amanda and their parents John and Sarah, who earn less than $22,314 a year, the official poverty guideline for a family of four. “If it weren’t for food stamps and the income tax credit, I don’t know where we’d be,” John said.

Marian Wright Edelman: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Stupid Marian Wright Edelman 2011

The Selbees, by contrast, formerly ran a corner store in Evart, Mich., one of the few states that has offered a game similar to Cash WinFall.

Boston.com Top Stories 2011

But the free Wood Carvers Roundup (today through June 17 in Evart, Michigan) is all about carvers getting together and sharing what they know.

Chicago Reader 2010

Manley from her father's home near Evart, in a rural area of Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.

FOXNews.com 2010

But when Robert Manley arrived at his home near Evart, in a rural area of Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula, the 15-year-old was nowhere to be found and the front door appeared to have been forced open.

ABC News: Top Stories 2010