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Exclusive: 4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work [OBAMANOMICS!]
ap/big story ^ | 7/28/13 | HOPE YEN

Posted on 07/28/2013 9:19:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.

Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.

The findings come as President Barack Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to "rebuild ladders of opportunity" and reverse income inequality.

Hardship is particularly on the rise among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63 percent of whites called the economy "poor."

(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fail; jobs; obamaeconomytour; poverty; unemployment
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To: SoFloFreeper

First and foremost, we face a social problem. Economics is only a symptom


21 posted on 07/28/2013 10:04:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SoFloFreeper

Planting the seeds of a future revolt.


22 posted on 07/28/2013 10:05:09 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
This will be the lead story tomorrow morning, right?

You're probably right. "Income inequality" needs more and bigger government to fix don't ya know.

23 posted on 07/28/2013 10:06:47 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

He is black. Until the Republicans can get over their fear of saying, “Yeah, he’s black. And he is WRONG,” they’ll continue to tread lightly.

My question is why the Republicans don’t encourage and enable more black critics of this clown to take center stage and say Obama is a failure—loudly and incessantly.

There are PLENTY of black critics of the Clown.


24 posted on 07/28/2013 10:07:11 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: VerySadAmerican

No, they are AFRAID that it will be the common Americans who will take matters into their own hands.


25 posted on 07/28/2013 10:09:06 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Excellence

He will.


26 posted on 07/28/2013 10:11:20 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Like Obama said: “We’re not there yet.”

Not until it is 5 out of 5 or perhaps until we are all bankrupt.


27 posted on 07/28/2013 10:12:30 AM PDT by rey
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To: SoFloFreeper

Slime Stream Media: 1 in 5 doing well under Obama.


28 posted on 07/28/2013 10:15:30 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Perfect timing for House Republicans to talk about how the economy really works, the Democrat poor judgement and why Democrat policies are failing. Then pass a bill that strictly helps the private sector(should have been done last week...).

The wider gap between rich and poor, the MORE WORK opportunity for the poor.


29 posted on 07/28/2013 10:28:40 AM PDT by Son House (The Heath Care Recovery Never Gets Here, Like The Economic Recovery, Easily Predictable.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Chicagoization and Detroitification of America continue full speed “Forward!” toward national disaster.


30 posted on 07/28/2013 10:52:45 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Rennes Templar

Sure, compared to this.


31 posted on 07/28/2013 11:28:21 AM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Eight years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Republicans need to say 0blamo is wrong, regardless of his skin color. Ideas don’t go from bad to good depending on the skin color of who’s advocating them.


32 posted on 07/28/2013 11:30:40 AM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Eight years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Every black critic is marginalized as “not authentic” or as a toadying Uncle Tom/Mammy. They face a huge amount of animosity within their own community and outright ostracizing. If they have a shot at high office/influence, they are virtually lynched ala Clarence Thomas and Alan West.

The repression of counterrevolutionaries is nearly 100% in effect and effective.

It does not matter what Republicans do or don’t do, what conservatives do or don’t do. Every white progressive liberal will also pour vitriol on anyone who criticizes The Agenda. They don’t even need the MSM. They have Twitter and Facebook.


33 posted on 07/28/2013 11:34:47 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Post Toasties

Then why didn’t anyone vote for him?


34 posted on 07/28/2013 11:45:41 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Mr. President, can you hear a special prosecutor now?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Economic conditions for typical Americans have gotten significantly worse on Obama’s watch, but I’m calling foul on the use of a bogus statistic:

“Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives.”

This is a pointless claim — an awful lot of folks both now and in the old days on the work-your-way-up-from-the-bottom track usually are and were in “near poverty” when they first enter the job market, and lots of folks go through a bit of unemployment, and always have. Aggregating over peoples’ whole lives (”at least parts of their lives”) you can probably get to four out of five even without including welfare.


35 posted on 07/28/2013 11:46:50 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David

When I graduated from college in 1975 I was staring at poverty and unemployment...then I got a job and spent less than I made.


36 posted on 07/28/2013 12:12:21 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: SoFloFreeper
You get what you vote for. LoFos voted for high taxation, burdensome regulation, bloated bureaucratic inertia and free stuff.

2014 - Primary em' all, let God sortem' out.

Time for The Freedom Party

Palin/Cruz 2016!

37 posted on 07/28/2013 12:15:02 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Rennes Templar

Because too many people failed to understand their self interests. Romney, whatever you can say about him personally, is not a member of the Democrat Party, and unless you are prepared to say Democrats and Republicans are the same thing, Romney would have *begun* a process of reversing many of the 0bama disasters.


38 posted on 07/28/2013 12:42:20 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Eight years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: dogcaller

Quite right — and that’s why I called foul on the bogus statistic. Life-time incidence statistics (esp. one like that the conflates lots of things) are always suspect. They are used to inflate the apparent incidence of or seriousness of problems or, in this case, to give the false impression that the last item included — reliance on welfare — is as normal as intermittent joblessness or having been “near poverty” as an adult.

And probably when you got the job and spent less than you made, you were still, for a while, according to the way the government defines things “near poverty”.


39 posted on 07/28/2013 12:49:45 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Sequoyah101; Rennes Templar
Our destruction seems to be inevitable now.

If Romney had been elected, it would have been a sign that Americans wanted to be put back to work, so I would have disagreed with you. Since Americans instead chose to continue getting their government freebies, I don't see another outcome.

Apart from divine intervention, of course.

40 posted on 07/28/2013 12:52:23 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty
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