financial skills en-US Avoiding the Poverty Tax <div
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src="" alt="Man with empty pockets" title="Man with empty
pockets" class="imagecache imagecache-250w" width="250"
height="167" /></a> </div> </div> </div> <p>There's a lot of
money in poverty. Not for the poor folks, of course. (See also:
<a href="">Too Broke to be Frugal</a>)</p> <p>The money in
poverty is for the rich folks who sell things to the poor. You'd
think that that there'd be more money in selling to the wealthy,
but the wealthy tend to be difficult customers. The poor, on the
other hand, are sharply constrained in ways that make them a
very profitable market segment.</p> <p>Rich folks &mdash; even
middle-class folks &mdash; get a whole bunch of stuff for free,
starting with free checking. They also get stuff cheap &mda