i.e., Poverty BE up. or "The povertitious be increasing magnitudinally under the present KKK administration, which represents the slave-holders."
The author of your otherwise interesting post needs many lessons in politically correct prose. Furthermore, asking Jesse for statisical back-up is simply not done. Whenever Jesse say something, you all say "Amen ... that be all right."
For that matter, "poverty," as defined by the US government is an arbitrary income level that has absolutely nothing to do with being "poor." "Poor" people in America have a higher standard of living than most of the world (and live better than the average western European).