So... Do These Numbers Actually Check Out?

[robkelk]

What I want to know, is where the idea that working more than 40 hours a week and still being just above the poverty line is a noble thing came from?

I think it's a serious misinterpretation of the old "hard work is its own reward" protestant work ethic.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012