Posted on 11/08/2013 9:10:43 AM PST by tcrlaf
A record-breaking 49.7 million Americans--one in six--now live below the federal poverty line, newly revised 2012 census data shows.
The new figures, which take into account medical and living expenses, are three million higher than the government's official number. The Obama Administration instituted the new metric two years ago but has not replaced the original methodology, which has been used for over a half-century. Only Congress could change the government's official calculation method.
"When so many citizens are worse off year after year, with food insecurity and health care insecurity, there's no way you can say that's a successful economy," Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz told the Associated Press
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
A victory for Democrat/socialist economic policies.
You forgot the free cell phone and enough disposable income to be covered in tats from head to toe.
Yes my error, but the tats serve a useful purpose in identifying people with whom you would not want to have any interaction.
Define poverty first. The media and I have vastly different definitions, I bet.
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