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by yummyfajitas 4531 days ago
75% of people below the poverty line have a car. 25% have two or more cars.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

Most poor people earn more than the minimum wage - only 3.6 million workers earn the minimum wage and there are 10 million working poor.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2011.pdf

In fact, only 11% of min wage workers are below the poverty line.

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba792