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Report: 3 million more children in poverty under Obama, 22% of all kids
Washington Examiner ^ | 7/21/15 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 07/21/2015 4:24:14 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

since President Obama took office, the poverty rate among children has soared to 22 percent, with three million more children living in poor conditions, according to an authoritative new report released Tuesday.

The 2015 "KIDS COUNT" report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation said that the percentage of children living in poverty jumped from 18 percent in 2008, the year Obama was elected, to 22 percent in 2013....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: media; obamafail; obamalegacy; obamanomics; worst
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To: unixfox

Who says B.O. (Plenty) has not been successful? Another term and he’ll have the 1/2 white house painted rainbow. Oh, wait!


21 posted on 07/21/2015 5:09:30 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: hosepipe

That is insulting to the Borg!


22 posted on 07/21/2015 5:18:19 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obola - America’s very own poverty pimp Nero.


23 posted on 07/21/2015 5:23:44 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What they’re really saying is that 3 million kids more are getting subsidized ...subsidized housing, welfare payments, free baby sitting, meals at school....


24 posted on 07/21/2015 5:35:11 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just part of the Democrat War on Children.


25 posted on 07/21/2015 6:31:28 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: SoFloFreeper
since President Obama took office, the poverty rate among children has soared to 22 percent, with three million more children living in poor conditions

Wait a minute, that's not a true statement...........since it doesn't define those children as American, just look at how many Mexican, Central American, Middle Eastern and African children he has raised above the poverty rate............ at the expense of American children.

26 posted on 07/21/2015 7:21:40 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The jerkoff in the White House won’t be happy until he places everyone in the poverty class and totally destroys this nation.


27 posted on 07/21/2015 7:29:07 PM PDT by Ranger Warrior
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To: SoFloFreeper

Children might be doing worse, but criminals, thugs, illegals, deserters, Cuba, Norht Korea, and Iran are doing better... much better.


28 posted on 07/21/2015 8:03:25 PM PDT by GOPJ (They are not undocumented and they are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens. Lurkinnamloomin)
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To: SoFloFreeper

doing a great job there half breed.


29 posted on 07/22/2015 1:57:24 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: Nachum

How many are the kids (anchor babies or immigrant) of tens of millions of illegal immigrants?


30 posted on 07/22/2015 4:44:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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To: Nachum

Also, Obama has tanked the job market and expanded welfare stamps.

You have to be listed as poor to qualify for government hand outs.


31 posted on 07/22/2015 4:45:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ("Psychopathia Sexualis, I'm in love with a horse that comes from Dallas" - Lenny Bruce (1958))
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