"The article is cherry picking this small population of kinda-sorta-unfortunates (they're still making $120k a year!) and using it to argue against a bunch of government programs that provide real benefits to people with a fraction of their income."<p>It's a regular NYT feature - The Plight of the Not-Quite-Rich-Enough.  Sure it sucks for this lady, but 2/3 of the families in this country would be thrilled to have a single wage-earner making $60k.  However, Mrs. Not-Quite-Rich-Enough gets NYT articles, and Joe Schmoe, who's struggling to send his kids to college at all, gets ignored.<p>Edit:  This is a Forbes article, but it reads just like any of a dozen NYT articles over the last year.  It makes more sense in Forbes, because that magazine is targeted at the people in the upper income bracket.