Black Elk wrote:

The latest numbers signal an alarming trend in society and politics. Why
do Americans tolerate politicians whose main job once elected is to line
their own pockets and the pockets of their sugar daddies? Is it laziness,
ignorance, complacency, too busy to pay attention?

I hear the Bush administration has a policy shift already in the works to
deal with poverty. They're going to shutdown the Census Bureau and
prosecute any whistleblowers.

We have two parties, owing to the idiotic electoral college and they are
both run by the same corporate hacks. We don't get to argue on anything
but abortion and Terry Schavio!

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Poverty: 2003 Highlights

The data presented here are from the Current Population Survey (CPS),
2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), the source of official
poverty estimates. The CPS ASEC is a sample survey of approximately
100,000 household nationwide. These data reflect conditions in calendar
year 2003.

HIGHLIGHTS

The official poverty rate in 2003 was 12.5 percent, up from 12.1 percent
in 2002.

In 2003, 35.9 million people were in poverty, up 1.3 million from 2002.

Poverty rates remained unchanged for Hispanics, non-Hispanic Whites, and
Blacks, although it rose for Whites and Asians./1

For children under 18 years old, both the poverty rate and the number in
poverty rose between 2002 and 2003, from 16.7 percent to 17.6 percent,
and from 12.1 million to 12.9 million, respectively. The poverty rate of
children under 18 remained higher than that of 18-to-64 years olds and
that of seniors aged 65 and over (10.8 percent and 10.2 percent,
respectively, both unchanged from 2002).

The poverty rate in 2003 (12.5 percent) is 9.9 percentage points lower
than in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available.
From the most recent trough in 2000, both the number and rate have risen
for three consecutive years, from 31.6 million and 11.3 percent in 2000,
to 35.9 million and 12.5 percent in 2003.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty03/pov03hi.html

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Black Elk wrote:

The usual bull *****.
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Poverty: 2003 Highlights

The data presented here are from the Current Population Survey (CPS), 2004
Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), the source of official
poverty estimates. The CPS ASEC is a sample survey of approximately
100,000 household nationwide. These data reflect conditions in calendar
year 2003.

HIGHLIGHTS.

Check this out.
http://1marketsquare.com/CapLP/Poverty.shtml

Hmmmm, I wonder what their political affiliation was and where they sent
their political donations being the free-wheeling small business Texans
they were? I wonder what church they belonged to to complete the disguise?

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THOMAS REEDY

Thomas Reedy was born in a small town in central Texas. Like many
teenagers, he has said that he dreamed of becoming a rock star, but ended
up studying nursing and worked in several hospitals before he taught
himself how to program computers in the early '90s....