Working poor

• What does it mean to be poor? If it means living at or below the poverty line, then 15 percent of Americans -- some 46 million people-- qualify.
(Huffington Post)
• House Republicans have hit upon a noxious scheme to help pay for an extension of the payroll tax cut: a tax increase on millions of poor working families.
(New York Times)
• In Illinois, 26.4 percent of households are asset poor and 39.8 percent are liquid asset poor.
(Syracuse Post-Standard)
• In Illinois, 26.4 percent of households are asset poor and 39.8 percent are liquid asset poor.
(Chicago Tribune)
• They helped reduce many of the middle class to or below the level of the working poor. They made it impossible for them to earn enough money to pay taxes, and forced many to seek assistance - those entitlements at which Romney so often takes aim.
(Examiner)
• I dont stand on the scale in front of the mirror or anything like that, Dunn said. Ive been swinging the bat a little bit and doing things (working out) Ive always done, just a little more.
(CBS Sports)
• Seriously, youve got to be kidding me. I just received my 2012 vehicle registration bill - $207.96. My car is 15 years old and on its last leg. Three years ago, the tax was about $97, two years before that about $74.
(Maui News)
• IDG News Service — Amid renewed reports of poor working conditions at factories making Apple products in China, its unclear whether customers will demand change.
(CIO)
• Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, joined by dozens of colleagues from his chamber controlled by Democrats, said census data show nearly half of the U.S. population has fallen into poverty or joined the ranks of the working poor.
(Staten Island Advance)
• A community group set up after the February earthquake is working as the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff to help quake-hit families where other agencies have failed.
(Stuff)