http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-565211 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:40:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=52659#comment-565211 Rent definitely costs more than food.  Food is 14% of my income, while rent is 31% (Milwaukee, WI).  That’s with a roommate, and it’s about to go up when I have to find a place on my own.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-564813 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:20:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=52659#comment-564813 also, the current population survey, from which this is derived, does not include the prison population – people who may be paying child support but are not counted as being pushed into poverty by it.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-564812 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:17:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=52659#comment-564812 not only that, but the poorest non-resident parents tend to just not pay child support, and go deeper and deeper into debt – but it doesn’t count as an expense, so it is less likely to push someone into poverty

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-564772 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:16:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=52659#comment-564772  I don’t disagree with that at all.  I guess I just think it is interesting how gender plays itself out in the data without being officially present.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-564764 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:10:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=52659#comment-564764 I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that women tend to come out financially worse out of divorce (despite the meme that divorce involves taking all the man’s money and giving it to the woman). Plus, being a custodial parent would leave you with less time and energy to work overtime/multiple jobs, and give you a bigger household to care for.

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/11/15/comparing-official-and-supplemental-poverty-rates/comment-page-1/#comment-564699 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:22:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=52659#comment-564699 What I find interesting is that the child support (paid) amount seems to have less of a negative effect–in terms of personal finance– than child support (received) has in the other direction.  From personal experience, I can see where that could be the case, but it is interesting to see depicted in data.  Not sure exactly what to make of it, since the person who is generally on the paying end is a father while a mother may be more likely to be receiving.  I would like to see how much the data fluctuates depending on if the receiving person had one, two, or more children to care for versus the person paying only having to be responsible for themselves and this theoretical 1+ children.

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