Its actually your middle name. Your first name was stolen when you were a baby.

1. Rent/mortgage subsidization will make homelessness a rare problem. I expect these subsidization should cover an effencicy apparent just about anywhere. (Obviously some property values are higher, but it should at least cover apartments of this size in at least part of most cities in each state) In places where homelessness is still a problem, the government should build efficiency apartments for rent.
2. Life can't easily leave you with nothing. Certainly you can still encounter financial hardship, but you'll always have something.
3. The fact that you don't strictly speaking need an income to survive will allow workers far more power in negotiating wages and working conditions. Which will promote healthier work environments.

Even Wealthy McHidesHisMoneyOffShores should get food stamps that could feed him, and a certain amount of money that can go towards paying his mortgage or house insurance. And some amount of money that can be spent on whatever needs arise.
And taxes should just be high enough across the board, a percentage income tax no matter how much money you make. Obviously government aid is not taxed.
So your tax dollars don't go to programs you don't benefit from, even if you do lose money. And making more money will never result in less aid, nor will not working actually result in more aid. Children should not increase the amount given for more than two children, however services should be available to help children. (For example, school lunch should just always be provided by the government. )
I know this isn't perfect, but it's better than the system we have now for a couple reasons.

While some people definitely abuse the system, it isn't the majority on a country wide level.
Also, as guest eluded to, part of the problem is that the system actually encourages people to never get off the system. A lot of this is actually that government assistance does not go away is small enough increments. If making only $325 a month qualifies you for enough aid to get by, but $350 a month means you get $100 less a month in various forms of government aid, you aren't going to ever work towards bringing in more money. Even though if you lost aid slowly you could probably work yourself up to the point you didn't need it.
Also- unpopular opinion here: everyone should actually receive government aid. Every citizen of the United States should get a certain amount in food stamps and a certain amount in housing assistance and a certain amount for various other things like toiletries and transportation. And those amounts should be livable on. Not luxuriously, but livable.

No, it probably isn't a safe assumption. Some people who feel this way also feel that if you aren't ready for children you shouldn't be having sex.

It's all good. It gave me a good reason to explain for anyone who may not know what median means. :)

Nope. Median =/= the number exactly in the middle of the highest and lowest. Median is if you list every outcome in order from highest to lowest, what number is in the middle.
For example; 0,1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 9, 12, 14
The median of this set of numbers is 4.
4=/=7
Which means it could be using median correctly. Because their are so many people making lower incomes, but very few people who are extremely wealthy.
That being said @bethorien pointed out, its unlikely that the graph is a fair representation of the truth.

I don't know, I think it's fine to have your siblings babysit for you sometimes. It's not like their niece was living with them.

Yeah, we have pickles in the Midwest, and people definitely eat them by themselves. But eating a pickle at a movie is just weird. And drinking pickle juice sounds awful.

Not necessarily. There are many options for treating ADHD and many people aren't familiar with the various options to treat their disorders.

As an Iowan, I'm with the Canadians. I cannot imagine eating a pickle in a movie theater.

I don't think you'd likely be less depressed for your life going badly. That being said I do completely understand how frustrating it can be to want to fix something but you are the only thing wrong.
The problem is, if things are also going badly in your life, you often find you lack the motivation to fix them. Because depression.
I hope you're able to cope well and be happy. :)

There is a very real possibility that you live in a place with better opportunities. You may have picked up more useful job skills along the way. The truth is the worst thing I ever did for my ability to get a job was stop working for a while. I needed it for my mental health, but finding a job with gaps in your work history is hard.
Also, and this is important: Racism and Sexism definitely still exist in the work place. If you are an urban white male with no criminal record there is a good chance you can find a job, but the same does not apply if you are a black woman in a little town in the sticks. Not if that town is primarily white people.
And not of that accounts for the many many disorders that make getting a job harder.

False. In some places this may be true, but it isn't true everywhere or for everyone. I have a high school diploma and some college and I struggled to even get an interview for months.
I have a job now, and I haven't been poor because I am lucky enough to have had money from family. But that isn't the case for everyone. Being poor is not a choice for many many people who are poor.

Well, you can't have angry customers trying to kill you because their lamp doesn't work.