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Learn more about Donna Beegle’s work at Communication Across Barriers: www.combarriers.com
What Is Considered Poverty?
Definition of poverty for a family of four:
o 2015 federal poverty level: $24,250 annual income.
o To qualify for 2014-2015 reduced-price school lunch: $44,123 annual income.
o To qualify for 2014-2015 free school lunch: $31,005 annual income.
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Related Coverage
See the first story in the two-part series, from Sunday:
Donna Beegle spent her childhood as a migrant worker picking fruit alongside her parents and five brothers in fields from Central Washington to Arizona. She dropped out of school at 15.
From that place of need and uncertainty, Beegle got an education, pulled herself up from the abyss of poverty and for the past 25 years has taught people how to better understand people living in poverty and how to provide programs to help impoverished people out of that same abyss.