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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 09:42 AM Sep 2013

census: no sign of economic recovery for many in US

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CENSUS_UNEVEN_RECOVERY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-09-19-03-24-16

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Even as the economy shows signs of improvement and poverty levels off, new U.S. census data suggests the gains are halting and uneven. Depending on education, race, income and even marriage, not all segments of the population are seeing an economic turnaround.

Poverty is on the rise in single-mother families. More people are falling into the lowest-income group. And after earlier signs of increased mobility, fewer people are moving as homeownership declined for a fifth straight year.

"We're in a selective recovery," said William H. Frey, a Brookings Institution demographer who analyzed the numbers.

The annual U.S. survey of socioeconomic indicators covers all of last year, representing the third year of a post-recession rebound.
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census: no sign of economic recovery for many in US (Original Post) xchrom Sep 2013 OP
K&R Brickbat Sep 2013 #1
But it would be better somehow to shut down the government, default R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #2
K&R woo me with science Sep 2013 #3
 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
2. But it would be better somehow to shut down the government, default
Thu Sep 19, 2013, 10:28 AM
Sep 2013

on our debt and lower our credit rating so that the GOP can score some fucking point.

I will always be a critic of our electeds, but I fucking hate the GOP and their Teabilly cousins.

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