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Can you back that up with some additional data? According to this: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fpl/ https://www.healthcare.gov/gl

• xyzzyz 7y ago
  If you have 5 children already, the additional cost of raising another one is greatly smaller than is the cost of raising the first one. The most likely scenario is that there is already a full time stay at home parent, so they will get additional workload, but won’t incur much additional expenses beyond some more food expenditure, some extra clothing if whatever older siblings have been wearing is too worn out, and extra bed. If the cost of children for you is daycare bills, private school, after school organized activity and college fund, you’re most likely not the kind of person who ends up having 6 children.
• ars 7y ago
  $43,430 is the number that the federal government considers to be abject poverty. Clearly it's not though. But use your chart to check the 250% level often used as a cut off for services. You can make a 6 figure income and still be considered poor.
  • crooked-v 7y ago
    $43,430 split 8 ways is $5428.75/person/year, before taxes.
    • ars 7y ago
      Yah, that's exactly the math the federal government does. It's wrong though, the incremental expense of more children doesn't work that way.