[cdcarter]

That's not being poor.

Try earning federal minimum wage and providing for 2-3 people. You cut the crap out early. But your car that you need to get to work still breaks down. Your SNAP (don't know what they are? you've never been poor) benefits still run out too soon. And you and your kids still get sick.

[jamesaguilar]

That notwithstanding, what advice would you naysayers like to see on this card for poor people? Is there anything that simply knowing is going to help them?

This card contains all the major points of advice a poor person can use about finance. Whether that is enough to save them is a completely different question. Raising it is not a valid criticism of this card.

[aidenn0]

For poor people, there's basiclayy

#1 Convince all the rich people to do the last item on the card from the original article

#2 Try to get your kids to do something different than you, if you're earning $20k/year with no savings, no spouse and have kids it's probably too late for you to save anyway

[mc32]

It is being poor. If you want to define 'poor' or poverty as the UN defines it, then fewer people than you would suppose would be classified 'poor'.

When one loses one's source of income, one loses one's security. One is then eligible for state and federal benefits --for most intents and purposes, one has become poor --though perhaps not a destitute pauper.