[L98Fiero]

"The conventional wisdom is that poverty isn't sexy and that nobody wants to talk about poverty ..."

BS. It has been chic for the last 35 years to walk around looking like you just woke off some park bench. You can go into Saks 5th Ave. right now and buy poverty-chic clothing but it will cost you a couple thousand dollars.

[proud_yank]

Look at Michael Moore, and all other Hollywood liberals, who make MILLIONS speaking and writing about poverty.

May not be sexy, as Fatty Moore certainly is not, but its apparently a good source of income.

[bruinbirdman]

The left has abandoned the term "poverty" as a rallying point. The new mantra is "middle class income disparity". There are now too many on the lower rung of the middle class ladder and the disparity between them and those with higher incomes is too great.

The left won the war on poverty through wealth transfers. They will continue to tout redistribution only with a different emphasis.

yitbos

[Niuhuru]

"You can go into Saks 5th Ave. right now and buy poverty-chic clothing but it will cost you a couple thousand dollars."

How perverse.