by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:

According to this April 20th story over at CNBC, to live ‘comfortably‘ in the state of Massachusetts, the ‘average‘ family of four, including two adults and two children, needs to make $301,184 annually, the highest in the USA, while in the state of Mississippi that amount is only $177,798 yearly for a family of four, the least in the US, but still an amount of $14,816.50 every month is needed to cover such things as housing and utility costs, food, childcare, and medical care according to statistics from the MIT Living Wage Calculator, still a staggering amount considering the average annual income in Mississippi is only $37,500 per person.