But he proposed to raise income taxes on families reporting two hundred fifty thousand dollars or more in taxable income.

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Now this does not mean that a person who doesn't have enough food, someone who is homeless on the streets here, gets an extra thousand or two thousand dollars a month-- that of course will make him or her much happier.

并不是说一个没有足够食物，一个无家可归，流落街头的人，每个月多有一两千美元-,那当然会让他或她更快乐。

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For a family of two,the poverty line begins at yearly earnings of fourteen thousand dollars or less.

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