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America takes leading investor spot in Poland [51]
but it doesn't mean that they live in a poverty and that it stinks where they live.
"Approximately 43.6 (14.3%) million Americans were living in poverty in 2009, up from 39.8 million (13.2%) in 2008" "Most Americans (58.5%) will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75"
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) figures for poverty in 2011:
2011 HHS Poverty Guidelines[14]
Persons in Family Unit 48 Contiguous States and D.C. Alaska Hawaii
1 $10,890 $13,600 $12,540
2 $14,710 $18,380 $16,930
3 $18,530 $23,160 $21,320
4 $22,350 $27,940 $25,710
5 $26,170 $32,720 $30,100
6 $29,990 $37,500 $34,490
7 $33,810 $42,280 $38,880
8 $37,630 $47,060 $43,270
For each additional person, add $3,820 $4,780 $4,390
$10,890 a year!! Even if you're technically not under the poverty line and make 15,000- 20,000 a year and live in the city you've barely got enough to feed and cloth yourself, god forbid you have kids to support. And i can show you some really dirty or stinky places in Philly or New York.
Well, in this situation they should relocate ASAP as long as they're still young, before they buy a house and create a family with kids etc. There are places in the US where they need qualified people. The biggest problem with Polish-Americans is that you guys live in some very specific areas in the US (where the life standard was much better in the past but not anymore) and you don't even try to move to another area where your life could be better.
It's not that simple, I know in the South Texas for example houses and land are cheap in comparison with the North but jobs are scarce, in Texas for instance is hard even to find some crappy labor job. The reason that Poles stay in Chicago, New York, Philly, North Jersey, Michigan is because when there are jobs they're there first. I got a buddy in college in Minnesota he says it's so hard to find any kind of a job.
