IMF warns the US over high poverty

BBC News ^ | 22 June 2016

[Lorianne]

The US has been warned about its high poverty rate in the International Monetary Fund's annual assessment of the economy.

The fund said about one in seven people were living in poverty and that it needed to be tackled urgently.

It recommended raising the minimum wage and offering paid maternity leave to women to encourage them to work.

The report also cut the country's growth forecast for 2016 to 2.2% from a previous prediction of 2.4%.

Slower global growth and weaker consumer spending were blamed.

[Lorianne]

Words fail

[Bulwyf]

My words don’t fail, but I can’t post them here.

What a bunch of elitist buffoons. Globalist evil bloodsuckers.

I better stop now.

[SkyDancer]

It’s because of all the illegals and rapeugees that live off working Americans, all 47% of us.

[Scrambler Bob]

1 in 7?

That’s me, my wife, 3 kids, dog, and granddaughter.

So One of us is in poverty?????

Horse Stuff!!!!

[Scrambler Bob]

Dog must not be getting minimum wage, I guess.

[17th Miss Regt]

The report also cut the country's growth forecast for 2016 to 2.2% from a previous prediction of 2.4%.

Way too optimistic! Contraction, anyone?

[AFreeBird]

How much tax money do we feed to them, again?

Hey IMF! Do the letters F.O. Mean anything to you?

[BitWielder1]

...offering paid maternity leave to women to encourage them to work.

Are they listening to themselves?

[loveliberty2]

Please send to Dr. Walter Williams at George Mason University. He’s been writing for years of the failure of the federal government’s so-called “poverty” programs. Just proves his case!!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Morons...they should warn us over Obama.

[Fungi]

These elitist buffoons get all their money from the US. We have already spent five trillion on the "war on poverty," yet we still have poverty. Matt. 26:11 "The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me."

[dsrtsage]

Then we change the definition of poverty from the bottom 12% of the population to the bottom 5. Problem solved.

[aynrandfreak]

The trick is to stop paying able-bodied people to not work. Also, no more cash/ebt payments, you need food, you get food, clothing, etc.

[fhayek]

Wait a minute. Who, exactly has been in charge? Who exactly has spent trillions in ‘stimulus’? Who has enacted ‘something something’ care? Who has given us extended unemployment benefits? Who is the undisputed champion of the poor and downtrodden? SOMETHING doesn’t add up.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Soon, no one will work....then ‘work makes free’.

[faithhopecharity]

After a new years of Obama destructing the American economy , jobs, and business opportunities. — we got poverty. Geeeee?! What a surprise !! ( sarcasm sarcasm sarcasm)

[ground_fog]

obamanomics. we are now a third world country..still time to get it back but if these Hillary supporters don’t wake the f up we are finished.

a whole generation is being lost. workers who have degrees can’t get jobs and are forgotten about. according to govt statistics, they don’t exist..except on the food stamp payrolls. I know so many..I was one too

[Persevero]

Yes more socialist policies are clearly needed s/

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Why in the hell are we being contolled by this entity?

[The Toll]

Anyone with “International” in their title is the one who stands “warned”.

tick tock, tick tock