Of course in America a family can have a house, two cars, cable tv, high speed internet and smart phones for everyone and still be considered to be living “in poverty.” What’s it say about a country when obesity is the greatest health problem of those “in poverty”.
Didn’t the gov’t recently move the stakes to put richer peeps back in “poverty” to help increase the body count?
As long as they have food stamps and their ObamaPhone, they be OK.
Take your pick for Illinois. We in California have them all and NY is beyond belief.
Look who did the “study”. A group that exists on government funds. I’m not buying it
The answer is easy — more government spending and a tax hike on the “rich” to pay for it.
If we extend this idea from “financial” poverty, and include poverties of safety, inalienable rights and moral clarity, I’d say everyone in Chicago qualifies.
The thugs who run things are poor in spirit, the serfs under their rule are poor in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is no wonder that The Chicago Way and the US Communist Party have their deepest roots here.
Bullshit! I worked in a grocery store for 4 years in IL and those people in “poverty” eat better than the rest of us. And they carry smartphones and Coach purses too. THAT is poverty in IL.
QED.
People in IL think all they need to alleviate the remaining problems of poverty is more Democrats and more government programs.
This is the same Cook County Economics Obama is bringing to the nation.
Get ready.
There seems to be a correlation between state and local government control by Democrats (and RINOs, in some instances) and increased poverty and general decadence in the populations under those governments' jurisdiction.
Illinois and Chicago in particular are just one example. Detroit is even a worse case. California and New York are examples as well.
So 1/3 of the people who repeatedly vote in corrupt, tyrannical Democrats to run their state are impoverished?
They deserve it.