Study: Many Va. families lack enough cash
A University of Virginia study shows a significant number of households across the state lack enough income and cash assets to cover basic needs and unplanned expenses.
The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service study also shows the federal poverty level inadequately measures how much it costs to be economically self-sufficient.
The study says that statewide, the average two-adult, two-child family needs about $44,000, or twice the federal poverty level, to pay for housing, food, child care and other monthly expenses. The study shows that 24.2 percent of Virginians earn below that level.
Researchers found that about 28 percent of Virginia's households lack enough cash, stocks or other assets to cover short-term emergency expenses.
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| March 1, 2011; 11:50 AM ET
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The next question is, of the 28% of Virginians who lack cash or assets to cover a short term emergency, how many of them own guns?
Due to global climate change, a war in the mideast, droughts, floods or something else, we could end up with a serious food shortage and wild inflation.
It's not going to matter how much money and supplies you have stocked up.
It's how well armed the people who have nothing are.
Posted by: MarilynManson | March 1, 2011 12:33 PM | Report abuse
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