Actually, the statistics are liberal fecal matter. Get the gov't out of the "welfare" business and give concern for our "fellow man" back to local organizations (primarily, but not limited to, religious) and the salvation army, et.al., and watch things change, however slowly. It's gonna take a long time to undo damage and manure-like thinking created by 40+ years of failed gov't welfare programs!
This data is from a bunch of mayors who, no doubt, are trying to shift blame to conservatives when it is their own, demonstrated, liberal lack of fiscal accountability regarding a problem which far predates Bush!
"The poor" are documented throughout the history of man; Bush didn't create them and, if he's smart, he won't aid and abet the problem by increasing spending for so-called "welfare" programs which are proven failures!
I agree with you, but he might help those unemployed from the upper middle class whose jobs are being shipped overseas. You know those who make more than most, the 80 to 100k a year engineers. Unless you lump them in with the uneducated poor.