Chattanooga Times Free Press on the uses and abuses of the federal poverty line & free lunch program. But DeVore said those percentages dont reflect the number of children in poverty. Nationwide in 2013, DeVore said, 21.7 percent of children were from families with annual incomes at or below the poverty level of $23,850 for a family of four. Free lunches are available to a family of four that earns 135 percent of that, or $31,000 annually, and reduced-price lunches can be had by families of four earning up to $44,123. Also, the federal poverty figures dont include assistance such as food stamps, subsidized housing or Medicaid health care, he said. And the poverty figures dont factor in such factors as the Souths relatively low cost of living. timesfreepress/news/local/story/2015/jan/27/tennessee-georgiand-alabamare-among-states001/284835/
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