Are you serious? You're dismissing statistics because you believe your anecdotal evidence holds more weight? You're now an expert on poor people because of the things you have "seen" and someone else has "seen"?
Please quit it with the BS. You're not poor. You're not around poor people. Stop describing how poor people live.
This is getting absurd. Poor people in America aren't as poor as you think. I absolutely hate it when people like you generalize how poor people live. Reading a blog post does not make you an expert on the poor or the bottom 1%. Try living it, like my family has. None of us are starving (a lot of us are fat in fact), and we all have smart phones and game consoles.
My family is actually at the bottom 1%. We can afford a solid standard of living at $15K-$20K salaries because of corporate behemoths like Walmart, which I assume you despise, feed, clothe, and entertain our family at $15 per day.
Please quit it with the BS. You're not poor. You're not around poor people. Stop describing how poor people live.