[brytlea]

That headline cannot be true in any real sense. One in two people are not poor or low income in any common sense use of those words. I don’t like the way things are headed either, and the case could be made that we are headed for disaster, but half the population is not poor or low income. Someone sent me an email the other day with photos form the Great Depression. THOSE people were poor and low income. And that was within the memory of some living today.

[cripplecreek]

Depression era poverty but I doubt these people simply sat on their butts and accepted it. My great grandmother managed to hold on to her home and keep the 5 kids together after her husband ran off. She took in laundry and rented rooms, her sons did work on local farms and did odd jobs etc.