Poverty level family budget

Paper instructions:
Construct a poverty level family budget. You can gather statistics to start by looking at sites such as  http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/11poverty.shtml    Please be specific about what you or others might learn from doing this exercise. I don’t just want the budget..but I want a brief  paper with some amount of thought and research on the realities of living within these figures. Watch the video(Hard Times Generation)  and think about the textbook material.

For another article on this subject

http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/03/17671753-there-may-be-millions-more-poor-people-in-the-us-than-you-think?

As you write the paper pretend that you are making  a  monthly budget for a pretend family of  four-based on the poverty line.  And then in a  page or so, analyze the implications based on  course material, video, articles etc.