The problem, generally, is staying in a home, not finding one
I’m assuming that she’s been accurately quoted here and if she has been then she’s lost her mind:
Elsewhere we’re told that this is her evaluation of what the individual poverty line should be, that $38,000 a year.
Which is interesting really. The median income for the country appears to be $31,000 or so. So poverty is now to be a higher sum than the average income level for the country? And presumably we’ve also all got to work to abolish poverty through redistribution – which is going to be tough unless we’re in Lake Wobegon, isn’t it?
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What one should expect from an Overage College Student..who runs her life on pure emotion...always on someone's else's Money..or course since she spent some time working as a bartender, getting paid in cash and probably not paying taxes...she doesn't care about spending others people's money
To AOC poverty is subjective [it always was - Adam Smith quotes the linen shirt standard] and to someone as rich as her (salary $174k) the thought of restricting her spending to the median income is unacceptable. Maybe she would swiftly become destitute if her income was only 20-odd% above the median and she continued to spend at her normal rate.
As an upper-middle-class (retired) married white male I can manage to live in (what I think of as) comfort on slightly less, after taxes and GiftAid donations, than $38k, but then I went to Public School (albeit not as tough as Gordonstoun) so she might regard me as being on the verge of destitution as I haven't bought a new suit in years.
You just need to keep in mind that "it's more important to be morally right than factually correct".
This nation of "destitution" (with the median citizen needing federal help) is not the one I live in (nor she, I imagine). But it is a compelling narrative. And, dittoes to Esteban, compelling narratives win elections, not correct facts.
On the other hand, she is very keen on importing more poor people. Presumably she doesn't think the USA has enough?