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If you're in the working-poor bracket (i.e. pay no federal income tax), it's $9,086.
Elephants in the Big Tent, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The film works because Salles makes the everyday world of a working-poor single mother every bit as frightening and exhausting as dealing with the supernatural.
Scott Mendelson: Just in Time for Halloween: 10 of the Scariest Horror Films of the Last 20 Years. Scott Mendelson 2010
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We're seeing this with the unemployed and working-poor that can't exist in the giant shadow of a miniscule privileged class that increasingly lords it over everyone.
Beau Friedlander: On Leading a Church Parade During Occupy Wall Street Beau Friedlander 2011
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We're seeing this with the unemployed and working-poor that can't exist in the giant shadow of a miniscule privileged class that increasingly lords it over everyone.
Beau Friedlander: On Leading a Church Parade During Occupy Wall Street Beau Friedlander 2011
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We're seeing this with the unemployed and working-poor that can't exist in the giant shadow of a miniscule privileged class that increasingly lords it over everyone.
Beau Friedlander: On Leading a Church Parade During Occupy Wall Street Beau Friedlander 2011
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We're seeing this with the unemployed and working-poor that can't exist in the giant shadow of a miniscule privileged class that increasingly lords it over everyone.
Beau Friedlander: On Leading a Church Parade During Occupy Wall Street Beau Friedlander 2011
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Soon, working-poor mothers will get to throw their 18 year-old children out on the street (instead of sending them to community college) so they can afford to give their paychecks to fat, greedy, rich insurance execs.
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I live within my means and always have, from the time my wife of 30+ years and I were working-poor at the start, right through to my better economic status now.
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Will those same greedy execs still get to decide what is "medically necessary" for those working-poor mothers who are forced to send in their paychecks?
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We're seeing this with the unemployed and working-poor that can't exist in the giant shadow of a miniscule privileged class that increasingly lords it over everyone.
Beau Friedlander: On Leading a Church Parade During Occupy Wall Street Beau Friedlander 2011
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