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Listening Practice Enjoy This Land is Your Land. ---How do you define poverty? How do you quantify that? ---Its a great question. Its hard to quantify depends where you live, what your 1_____ is, how many kids you have, all that. Its a gray area. But we went out here in New York and ask some folks on the streets, just to get a sense of what they think a family of four has to make to fall below that poverty line. Take a listen to their wide 2______of answers. 1. Fill in blanks with what you hear. 2. Group discussion: How do you define poverty? I would say anything less than 60,000 dollars a year would be poverty for a family of four. Income probably 40,000, 45,000 dollars a year. I would say 15,000 to 20,000. 3___________________________________________________________________________ ----You see, all over the board there, the actual answer, Brook, this shocked me. 22,050 dollars a year for a family of four. Thats according to the 2009 number when you look at medicate, 4_____, food stamps. That is what goes into 5_______ what benefits people get that fall below the poverty line. The 6_______ hasnt changed in 40 years no matter how the economy has changed, no matter how the job picture has changed. I doesnt factor in critical 7______ like housing and your medical expenses until the Obama 8__________ has just announced their development in new way to look at poverty. And its gonna include those essentials. Heres why they say its so important. Take a listen. ----The administration has basically proposed to produce a 9__________ poverty measure that will be produced next to the official measure, and will not replace it anyway, but will give us a second lens, another way to look at some of these issues. ----And thats really important given this economy. Now, Brook, lets be clear here. This isnt gonna change how Federal dollars are 10_______ to people that fall below the poverty line. But its gonna inform policy-makers, give them a clear picture of just whats goi