Half of American Citizens are at or near Poverty. Is this the America you want?

The costs of food and housing and education and health care and transportation and child care and taxes have been well-defined by organizations such as the  Economic Policy Institute, which calculated that a U.S. family of three would require an average of about $48,000 a year to meet basic needs; and by the  Working Poor Families Project, which estimates the income required for basic needs for a family of four at about $45,000. The  median household income is $51,000.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/overwhelming-evidence-half-america-or-near-poverty