Now that you have read about a homeless family in D.C., understand your own values, are educated about government policies available to the poor and have completed a mock monthly budget through the interactive activity, you can complete your own poverty budget.
Use this budget sheet template to first write down all of your monthly expenses in the first column for each category (it doesn't matter who pays for them). This would include your rent (even if someone else pays for it), food, schooling (if you or your parents are paying for it out of pocket), etc. The first column is how much you currently spend, the second column is how you would allocate $776 a month with a poverty budget and the third is how you would allocate $388 with an extreme poverty budget.
After you complete it, write in the comments below about it. How did you allocate your money in the second and third column? How did it make you feel? Were your values challenged and how did you overcome that?
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