Posted on 09/16/2010 8:21:10 AM PDT by SkyPilot
WASHINGTON -- The number of people living in poverty has climbed to 14.3 percent of Americans, with the ranks of working-age poor reaching the highest level since at least 1965.
The Census Bureau says that about 43.6 million people, or 1 in 7, were in poverty last year. That's up from 39.8 million, or 13.2 percent, in 2008.
The number of people lacking health insurance rose from 46.3 million to 50.7 million, due mostly to the loss of employer-provided health insurance during the recession. Congress passed a health overhaul earlier this year to extend coverage to more people.
The statistics released Thursday cover President Barack Obama's first year in office, when unemployment climbed to 10 percent in the months after the financial meltdown.
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don’t worry- it can get worse:
‘Sustainable’ Poverty: The Real Face of the Leftist Environmental Agenda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2577004/posts
The Census did not ask for SS number. So I am assuming many of these “ Americans “ are from south of the border. Let them go home and be supported by that country’s ‘wealthy’.
I flew in relief supplies to Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, and Eritrea.
You are absolutely correct.
Moreover, I recently talked to some people who vacationed in Jamaica recently. My wife and I were stupid enough to do that 22 years ago.
It was a mess. Crime. Poverty. Mobbed in the street.
Most Americans really have no idea.
What is the definition of poverty?
The “poor” in America should transfer their wealth to Africa.
Only 1 color TV.
This is propaganda!!!!!
Everyone knows that the worst economy since Herbert Hoover – was in 2004 (John Kerry, 8/6/03)!!!
We are in the midst of the summer of recovery-—Joe Biden.
“Only 1 color TV.”
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And females only 50 lbs overweight.
“...We have the richest poor people...”
Ain’t that the truth. I like the pics of our designer sneaker-clad First Lady serving up food in a “soup line” and all the “poor” pulling out their cell phones to take her picture.
“Thus, we created a generation of people who have no idea how NOT to be poor, and how NOT to survive without the government.”
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Well, then they aren’t trying very hard are they?
The simple first step is to simply say “NO” to the government handouts.
Precisely as it was designed to do. The Progressie Marxists who created the so-called "war on poverty" knew full well what they were doing. The Progressive Marxists desperately wanted to create a dependent class so that they would be able to generate guaranteed votes to keep themselves in power, much like the way they have manipulated the minimum wage to secure union votes. As an added sided benefit, they've been able to use the "war on poverty" as a method of race baiting to pit black against white for nearly fifty years after they destroyed the black family and subsequently, black neighborhoods. Double whammy. Considering that the Progressive Marxists were using our money to accomplish their goals it was a rather cheap endeavor for them, too.
People here on FR often muse about what one event will trigger the coming civil war. I believe the strongest candidate will be when the welfare brood mares are finally cut off when there is literally no money left to continue supporting them....and it's not that far off. The riots we are going to see are going to make Greece look like a frat party.....
I dunno, I'll look around, but anything Lyndon did is bound to end badly just like his folding the SS fund into the general fund. It catches up with "someone down the road". Unfortunately, we're that "someone down the road" and all those people in poverty have been brainwashed into thinking that someone owes them those TVs, DVDs, cellphones, computers, autos, and a lot of other things.
Regards
I heard yesterday that 9% of Americans have a drug problem. Perhaps being a drug addict does not help your economic situation very much.
If you have shelter, a cell phone, electricity, more than one set of clothes, shoes, access to a washing machine, and more than one meal a day, you are not in poverty.
Poverty is Ethiopia, Sudan, parts of South America, and over 90% of China. That’s true poverty.
Kingston is a shithole.
The American Idol President is laying the groundwork for American Idol style election voting.
Well, if my husband’s construction business goes bankrupt, our family will be among the poor. Hard working American families who are dealing with long-term unemployment are among the poor. We get calls from men looking for work, men in their 40s, 50s, and they all tell me the same thing, “I’ve never been out of work before in my life.”
This is the future of American poverty. Families like mine who are out of work for month after mine, use their savings, sell what they can, and then start living off retirement and anything invested. Pretty soon there’s nothing left. Do they move in with family? Can they even get ANY job? Assuming they have been good stewards and responsible, this scenario is still highly possible.
Just about any family is six months or less from that scenario, so please don’t assume it’s only the chronically unemployed and unemployed-by-choice who make up this 1 in 7.
One more thing, 60% of Argentinians were at the poverty level by 2003, following their late 1990’s economic collapse. We could hit numbers that high by the time Obama and the Demonrats are done with us.
Try not to sneer to much at the poor.
/johnny
Tom Sullivan was talking about this a few days ago on his radio show. His show is heavy on financial and tax subjects since he's a former money manager. The gist was the numbers of those "in poverty" are slightly higher now than during the Johnson Administration....
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