[neefer]

lines start forming at some U.S. food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning because people want to get something before the food supplies run out.

People don't go to food banks early because they're afraid the food will run out. They want the first and best selection of perishable daily donations from supermarkets, Panera, etc.

[i_robot73]

Maybe, the problem is the definition of ‘poverty’. I’d wager to guess, it’s the same as ‘unemployed’ (living off the millions in the savings account STILL = ‘unemployed’ = ‘looking for job and none available’)

Seems to me, we had a WHOLE lot less issues when the govt wasn’t fighting a war on ‘poverty’ by stealing from the taxpayers to give to preferred demographics.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I thought no one talked about this stuff unless a Republican was in office? ;)

(Very sobering facts, though...)

[Jim Noble]

The steady deterioration in the lives of the white lower middle and working classes where I live is shocking.

Anybody who thinks the “economy” is improving needs to get out more.

[Sir Napsalot]

You have bug-eyed Krugman, btw who won a Nobel prize for something, on the NYT op-ed page claiming 'growth' under Dems (i.e. Obama's seven years) is so much better than when GOP was in charge.

And you find a frighteningly large number of people echoed his pov. I just randomly picked one from the comment section- Tim Kane from Measa, AZ wrote

"If current trends hold course, In 2016 the average voter will walk into the voting booth with this information -

# of private sector jobs created by President -

Obama: 8-10 million

Bush Jr: 0 (Zero, zilch, nada: actually negative 500k)

Clinton: 20+ million

Bush Sr: 1.5 million

Reagan: Ancient History

So, yeah, if you are Republican, then you want to, have to, need to lie on economics, and few lie unflinchingly better than Fiorina.

(end of excerpt) Which had close to 700 upvotes

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

#8 If you can believe it, more than half of all students in our public schools are poor enough to qualify for school lunch subsidies.

That is a 'dirty little secret' which has nothing to do with poverty! District administrators work to sign up as many children as they can (including kids from well to do families). Doing so increases the flow of cash to their district, which is never questioned by the Federal government. Every kid signed up is considered eligible for the program.

School lunch subsidies are treated as a 'cash cow' and the Federal assistance is diverted to other needs.

Regards,
GtG

[clearcarbon]

"#4 46 million Americans use food banks each year, and lines start forming at some U.S. food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning because people want to get something before the food supplies run out."

"Soylent Green is in short supply, so remember - Tuesday is Soylent Green day."

[LucyT]

21 Shocking Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America

. . . . Check out article.

Thread Drift:

From one of the links w the article:

Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. ... third only to heart disease and cancer ... claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year.

Hearing members, who spoke before the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, not only underscored the devastating loss of human life – more than 1,000 people each day ... but also called attention to the fact that - these medical errors cost the nation a colossal $1 trillion each year.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Conservatism is a three-legged stool:

Faith.

National Security.

Economy.

Here’s one for your wife.

Only three elections survived a bad economy:

Two were re-elections by FDR. And one was a re-election won by Obama.

In all three cases, the only incumbent who ever led anything close to a recovery was FDR’s third term, and that was because the rest of the world’s factories were decimated. Obama has failed to decimate the rest of the world’s factories, so here we are.