Could you support your family on $15, 141 per year?

Nope - to me this is just spending money for MYSELF. I would not be able to support a family on this unless I had no mortgage or other bills.

How many are the members in your family. Electric bills are getting very high. They have so many additinal charges. It is hard to think how to support a family with so little income. Many live below poverty line. Stick to the basic. Spent only in important things. You can save if you can think of ways to minimize waste. You have to eat three times a day - maybe you can reduce to two times a day. Other eat only once a day. It is hard to squeeze with the little money that you have. Maybe you can ask help from you relatives who are rich. It is not good to go begging from your rich relatives.

Yes, it could be done. You just have to know how to make that kind of money work. Too many people are in debt these days not because they don't have enough money, but because they don't spend wisely.

I have seven children....no way would I be able to support my children at all with that amount of pay per year. You would not believe how much groceries we go through! 3 of them are teenagers...and the one of the younger boys and girls can eat just as much as me! As for housing....no way. Our mortgage alone would suck up the monthly income! And that would be after taxes. What about food then? What about gas to get to work? Electricity? Water? Clothes? and more? Nope...that would not work for my family.

Yes I could cause my hubby and I live on that every year our bills are paid and we live in a nice apartment....We don't buy things we don't need we have two car, two tv and three computers..... People can live on a lot less if they just budget themself and don't let themself get behind or buy stuff they don't need..... We want for nothing we don't need....We have our medince when we need it and we go out to eat two or three times a week.......But we don't go over board......

i live alone on less than that, and it is HARD AS HELL. i also have to help my parents on occasion as they've same income.

For four years I had supported myslef and three children on less than that a year. I could not get any aid for me or my children because I was working full time. We lived comfortable and my kids never went hungry but they did not have all the things that their friends had. I think that it can be done, no I know that it can be done.

My family consist of me and my husband. I think things would be tight if we had an income of that. We have a about 1500 worth in bills every month not counting food and other things. But we have lived on that kind of income and we made it work.

take that amount to my country and you are considered well off! people here can manage to have $150 less a month for everything! man, are you rich!

Here in the Philippines $15 is equivalent to P700 pesos and no way can i survive on it, although there are some families who is very thankful to have that as long as they have money to buy a food. That is only for food excluding clothing, housing and electric billing and other expenses. Some people here are struggling for poverty and would you believe they make survive for just $2 dollars a day or least. I think for my family $15 is not a decent standard of living.

Absolutely not. This is my family's monthly break down: Rent 750 water 50 gas 80 electric 100 phones 100 food 400 student loan payment 80 gas, car insurance 250 That comes to over 1,600 a month for two of us. Take that times 12 months and we need 19,200 per year to pay basic expenses, not including things like laundry soap, toilet paper, cleaning products, clothing, emergencies... It's expensive just to live in this country! Granted, I live in a more expensive place than other people, maybe, but who could raise children on that dollar amount? That's ridiculous!

It depends on the size of the family. I think the average family has 3-4 people per household and if that's the case, then no $15,141 is no where near enough money to live comfortably. Could you get by? Probably. But it'd be a struggle. Those people putting together these poverty numbers have obviously never tried to live off that kind of income.

It would be pretty tight, but I could make it since I have no debt, and no family to take care of. I'd have to find a really cheap efficiency apartment, though. I'm surprised this number hasn't been adjusted since the 1970's, as someone pointed out.

haha, so much money , In China , I need 10 yesar to get it, but you know , 15141RMB I can get in one year , and it is enough to support my family, so ,I wish ,someday , I can go to work to USA , and earn lots of dollor , then come back to China , so that , I can have lots of money to support my family, for you know ,usd$1=RMB8.

Could anyone really live on only that much per year? Especially if they have a family to care for! And, a home, and bills, and groceries. Maybe.....no, I do not think that anyone could have a descent standard of living if they only have that much income!! :)

yes. I'd be able to make that work.

Just suck on Uncle Sam's teat like everyone else who's too lazy and stupid to move up the social ladder.