| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Dick W. Scooter Rove" |
| Date: |
20 Feb 2006 03:57:10 AM |
| Object: |
More on poverty in the US |
Social Security and Medicare have all but eliminated poverty among the
elderly. Food stamps have made severe hunger in the United States
mostly a thing of the past. A little-known program with bipartisan
support and a boring name-the Earned Income Tax Credit-supplements the
puny wages of the working poor, helping to lift millions into the
lower middle class.
[note which programs bu$h has cut: Medicare and Food stamps]
[note also that he tried to cut social security]
But after a decade of improvement in the 1990s,
poverty in America is actually getting worse. A rising tide of
economic growth is no longer lifting all boats. For the first time in
half a century, the third year of a recovery (2004) also saw an
increase in poverty. In a nation of nearly 300 million people, the
number living below the poverty line ($14,680 for a family of three)
recently hit 37 million, up more than a million in a year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287641/
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