Understanding Poverty in America (What the Census doesn’t count when reporting on the “poor.”)

National Review ^ | 9/10/2009 | Robert Rector

[SeekAndFind]

Real poverty is a teenage girl prostituting herself to keep her family from starving. I’m not aware of any such in America.

What do we call teenage girls who give their body up for NOTHING ? There's too many of them around ( a lot of them ending up with babies ).

[nina0113]

What do we call teenage girls who give their body up for NOTHING ?

A completely different issue. This is about financial poverty, not moral.

[dervish]

What’s missing from this report is the mentally ill homeless poor who in the 1980’s the left decided should not be institutionalized but should be free to roam our streets.

[MrB]

Well, you heartless thoughtless bastid,

how do you think he'd be able to afford that if he had to pay for his own food, shelter, clothing, and transportation?

I swear, some people just don't think, or even have hearts.

/sarc

[eeevil conservative]

fixing the “poor” issue is EASY— VERY EASY....

stop public school social engineering, and simply teach them the facts in the study below....teach it to them in every grade, every year...just 2 hours a year...

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba428/

no religion, no moral judgments, just simple facts....

[Bob]

However, they changed the way the BMI was calculated, moved the numbers around, and PRESTO!!, more fat people were created overnight!!

They've done the same with diabetes testing. Way back when, a 110 fasting blood glucose was considered borderline or pre-diabetic. Since I was a little over that, I cleaned up my diet, got more exercise and lost quite a bit of weight. My doctor was still telling me that I was pre-diabetic. As my level was dropping, the cutoff was dropping even faster. The cutoff had been dropped to 105 and, last I heard, had been further reduced to 100. When I finally got mine down to 99, I was finally "normal".

[Mack the knife]

There will always be a bottom 10%.

[RipSawyer]

So these peoople from England were much less wealthy than your middle class friends but they could afford to come to America and stay for several weeks? I don’t follow you, who footed the bill for all that? I don’t know many people who could afford to fly to England for a wedding, let alone stay for weeks.

[RipSawyer]

Here she is more likely to do the same thing to buy cocaine.

[Beagle8U]

The plane tickets cost pretty much the same as they would for an American to fly to England. Many middle class people can afford that.

Staying here for a couple weeks cost them nothing, because they stayed with the families here, as guests.

In England, few can afford large homes on 5-10 acres, or a truck and an SUV or two.

England...50 million people and 50,000 sq miles.

Do the math.