Open socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes the poverty line needs to be readjusted, pushing the new threshold to $38,000 per year for one person. That’s more than triple the current federal poverty line for one person and over $10,000 more than the threshold for a family of three.
“Forty million Americans are living in poverty right now, and if the poverty line was … at what some people think it should be — about $38,000 a year — we would be shocked at how much the richest society on the planet is allowing so much of its people to live in destitution,” AOC offered on Thursday, as reported by The Hill.
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