The woman in the article receives $1390/month in COLA'd fixed income and free ''major medical'' health care. I can tell you from personal experience: this is '

The woman in the article receives $1390/month in COLA'd fixed income and free ''major medical'' health care. I can tell you from personal experience: this is ''enough to actually live on''. It's not super comfortable but then we're talking about someone who worked for decades and ended up with a net worth of zero. I'm not assigning blame I'm just restating a fact. Where my family is from in the midwest a studio apartment is $300/month in a safe enough area, and there are plenty of very low cost community resources and activities. Obviously not a highly desirable area but people survive there with a roof over their heads, food on the table, and a community to spend time with. Back to the woman in the article: to me it seems that her real problem isn't poverty but rather clinging to her RV and her wanderlust lifestyle. Which of course she's entitled to do, but we shouldn't look at it as an example of the system failing when it's actually the opposite.