https://www.portangelesfoodbank.org/real-talk/2025/12/5/the-poverty-line-is-a-lie-what-that-means-for-our-community

Poverty is probably closer to $130-150k for a family of four than the $31k calculated by the fed. Mostly because we still calculate the poverty line as “food costs equal to or more than 30% of your take home” and then we pour mountains of money into food subsidies, keeping the poverty line artificially low.