Under the Census Bureau's "supplemental poverty measure", which includes cost-of-living adjustments and non-cash benefits, California has America's highest poverty rate: almost a quarter of its 38m residents cannot pay for basic necessities.
Some point out that supplemental UI benefits have been in place longer and paid out more than in past recessions.
Within months his unit, which had six-full time analysts and two supplemental staff fewer by far than the team that monitored Islamic threats was gutted, "out of malice and risk aversion", Mr Johnson maintains, and out of fear of politically motivated budget cuts.
In other words, very good at killing people.Many if not most of our products offer not some supplemental happiness, but release from some unpleasantness.
It was still unclear whether climbers could survive at that height, or even whether supplemental oxygen would help at all.
The Census Bureau's "supplemental poverty measure", which uses a similar methodology, has it at 23.8%, the highest in the country (by the traditional measurement California is 14th).
His victorious opponent, David Brat, attacked Mr Cantor in a debate for "voting to fully fund Obamacare" last fall; the reference was to Mr Cantor's vote to approve a supplemental appropriations bill that ended the government shutdown.
Ms Lowrey points out the opposite is also a possibility: McDonald's has little pressure to pay you a living wage if the government is sending you supplemental cheques every month.Whatever else they say about a basic income, everyone seems to assume that it would decrease income inequality.
For many who rely solely on food stamps, there is very little "supplemental" about the programme now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP).
He has half a dozen cars in varying states of disrepair parked outside his trailer, car-parts everywhere and a pile of crushed Pepsi cans below his porch.He "draws" $521 a month in supplemental security income (a form of cash assistance for the elderly, poor and disabled).
Historically, the Fed has been buy-and-hold.[Then there's the supplemental financing programme, or SFP, under which the Treasury issues extra debt, and leaves the proceeds on deposit at the Fed rather than spending them. This process reduces reserves.]If we're going to go the supplemental financing programme route, we need SFPs to be exempt from the debt ceiling.
