Bending the Third Rail
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Poverty in the USA
I'm shamelessly stealing a link from Desi. This is too important to just let slip by. Of course, it comes from media outside our borders.
37 million poor living in the land of plenty.

A shocking 37 million Americans live in poverty. That is 12.7 per cent of the population - the highest percentage in the developed world. They are found from the hills of Kentucky to Detroit's streets, from the Deep South of Louisiana to the heartland of Oklahoma. Each year since 2001 their number has grown.

Under President George W Bush an extra 5.4 million have slipped below the poverty line. Yet they are not a story of the unemployed or the destitute. Most have jobs. Many have two. Amos Lumpkins has work and his children go to school. But the economy, stripped of worker benefits like healthcare, is having trouble providing good wages.


Once again, read Nickel and Dimed if you haven't. It will change your perspective on work and the poor.

Written at 3:23 PM by Lynne.
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Blogger Greyhair said...
Let me echo the recommendation to read "Nickeled and Dimed". It's the "Black Like Me" of our time and will open your eyes to the poverty that goes on right under your nose.
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