Poverty USA...

[Mari333]

send THIS to all repugs and then tell them Jesus would cast them out if they vote for Bush again..
"Whatsoever you do to the least of them, you do to me" Jesus.

http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm

[Kanary]

1. Great resource

It just leaves out that some of the programs it mentioned are going to be up for cuts, and some already have been.

Kanary

[lcordero]

2. Something else that hits close to home

Was the boom imaginary?

http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V12/7/reich-r.html

The dirtiest little secret about the Roaring Nineties is that average working families gained almost no income, while their health care costs soared. From 1986 through 1997 (the latest year for which detailed IRS data are available), the average income of the richest 1 percent of Americans rose 89 percent, to $517,713. During these same years, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of Americans rose 1.6 percent, to $23,815. (These figures, not incidentally, are after all federal income taxes were paid.)

I don't see any stats for 1997 all the way through the present so I'm going on the assumption that somebody has something to hide.

Keep in mind that inflation is usually anywhere from 2 to 4 percent. So the average wage earner took a 10-15% paycut.

[redqueen]

4. It was very real for those who aren't poor

The poor don't get a lot of help from the press or politicians. The middle class, though, now those are consumers!

[lovedems]

3. Very touching. I emailed the link to several in my family. Thanks. n/t