Census: 1.4 million MORE in poverty than in 2001

[Flying_Pig]

(Thanks Whistle-Ass)
:mad:
Grrrr!

Census survey finds nearly 1.4 million more people in poverty in 2002
12% in U. S. now considered poor
GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, September 3, 2003

(09-03) 00:24 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

The nation's rocky economy sent 1.4 million more people into poverty last year, a Census Bureau survey found. Nearly half of the newly impoverished were children.

Roughly 17.2 percent of children, or 12.2 million, lived in poverty in 2002, up from 16.4 percent, or over 11.5 million, in 2001, according to the American Community Survey results released Wednesday.

Overall, 12.4 percent of the population, or nearly 34.8 million people, lived in poverty in 2002, up from 12.1 percent, or 33.4 million, the previous year.

Median household income rose by $51, when accounting for inflation, to $43,057 after a similarly slight drop the previous year, when the nation was in recession from March to November. Median income refers to the point at which half of households earn more and half earn less.

The increases in poverty in 2002 were "not out of the ordinary" for a recession, and less severe than expected, said Sheldon Danzinger, co-director of the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

More.... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/09/03/financial0324EDT0017.DTL

[saigon68]

1. THIS IS NOT HIGH ON THE CHIMPANZEE'S RADAR SCREEN

He still has unions to bust, oil payoffs to give and jobs to send overseas.

[Flying_Pig]

2. You can say that again!

I am surprised by the lack of comments on this article so far. Looks to me, like it would make great cannon-fodder for our Dem candidates...
:shrug:

[GainesT1958]

3. Well, I guess THOSE folks...

Aren't better off now than they were three years ago, huh? :grr:

It's pretty telling how much the Repubs care about jobs for Americans when they send their phone-bank fund-raising operations to the latest trendy phone-banking spot...INDIA, for goshsakes! :mad:

But, then--as it was pointed out in our intrepid DU Admins' "Top Ten" list this week--what unemployed Americans...including unemployed Indian-Americans...would take a job from the party, and the pResident, who cost them their jobs in the first place!? :grr:

Dub's squattin' days are numbered!:kick:

B-)

[underpants]

4. Look all these slackers need is to pull themselves up by there bootstraps

Honey, were are my boots with the bootstraps?

Uh, well I had to sell one of them last week for bread money.

Well where is the other one?

We are having it for dinner.

[starroute]

5. "Not out of the ordinary" for a recession???

Wait just a minute there -- haven't they also been proclaiming that the recession ended in November 2001 and that we've been in a recovery ever since?

Whoever was asking for a definition of cognitive dissonance on another thread -- I think we just found a good one!

[DeaconBlues]

6. Welcome back to the Reagan/Bush I years

Hmmm, when was the last time the American people experienced the misery of rising poverty rates? Oh yeah, thats right. The last time a Republican occupied the White House.

[bleedingheart]

7. Now this is a story more important than Arnold and the Egg

[Flying_Pig]

8. One would think so....

:shrug:

[ichiro99]

10. Streets homefront, the dancing and singing's already commenced ...

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1416256
"The Nation's First Homeless Veteran of the Invasion of Iraq" 2 Sep 03/ Upon her return home to Boston, Sgt Vannessa Turner ...and her 15 year-old daughter are homeless. (cut)

Ballooning poverty and joblessness, juicier property seizures, fatter prisons, meaner cops, more kills... Success! Welcome to Centurian Nation's place in the modern order. Takes a special kind of person to get along, a small army of gatekeepers riding herd on discourse, an iron-clad shroud on informed disbelief. Sports fans everywhere are clear on two things in unison: a brown man's life is a cheap and expendable thing, and the mass sleepiness of fascism's never been more fun.

Whatever the ebb and flow of current intrigues abroad, one victory's as good as another to crocodiles. The occupiers can withdraw to the desert and bomb again, poison hated Iraq still further or stay where they are, inflicting casualties, taking some: small costs since deaths on every side are mothersmilk to New Rome. The crew who said up front they'd sooner be feared than approved of, perennial beneficiaries from coincidence, fortunate breaks, then unlikliest happenstance.

[JPace]

9. Clinton said that the republicans...

don't realize how much their policies
hurt people.

With all the unemployment it won't be
long until crime rates rapidly rise.
What a mess AWOL is making of our
country.

[prolesunited]

11. Just thought this story needs more attention

:kick:

[MaineDem]

12. In Maine the increase is 60%+

Very discouraging.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=98546