What you do if you gave birth to your fifth child and living on his unemployment check
What you do if you if your husband was making $52,000 a year as a floor-installation foreman for All-American Flooring. Before the flooring company hit financial trouble and he got laid off after seven years of service. Every day the husband would ask his girlfriend, now his wife, to make a little extra of whatever they were having for dinner. He'd pack it up and hand out food through the window of his Chevy Tahoe to the men who couldn't afford to eat.
Now the family had to downsize from their six-bedroom house in the Poconos, move three times in one month, sell the truck to pay the bills and end up in assisted housing, courtesy of Lackawanna County.
But you are not alone in this situation. You are just one of more than 11,340 households living in poverty in Lackawanna county, according to the 2008-2010 American Community Survey released this fall.
"Right now, we're living on his unemployment check," said Mrs. Allen, 27, who gave birth to their fifth child, Jeff Jr., on Sept. 2. "This is the longest we've ever been without income."
Source:
The Times-Tribune
What you do if you if your husband was making $52,000 a year as a floor-installation foreman for All-American Flooring. Before the flooring company hit financial trouble and he got laid off after seven years of service. Every day the husband would ask his girlfriend, now his wife, to make a little extra of whatever they were having for dinner. He'd pack it up and hand out food through the window of his Chevy Tahoe to the men who couldn't afford to eat.
Now the family had to downsize from their six-bedroom house in the Poconos, move three times in one month, sell the truck to pay the bills and end up in assisted housing, courtesy of Lackawanna County.
But you are not alone in this situation. You are just one of more than 11,340 households living in poverty in Lackawanna county, according to the 2008-2010 American Community Survey released this fall.
"Right now, we're living on his unemployment check," said Mrs. Allen, 27, who gave birth to their fifth child, Jeff Jr., on Sept. 2. "This is the longest we've ever been without income."
Source:
The Times-Tribune
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