Posted on 09/14/2016 2:52:33 AM PDT by expat_panama
Each year the U.S. Census Bureau releases its data on poverty. And each year the news seems even worse than the year before. This year is no different, with Census informing us in its annual report that some 43.1 million Americans, or about 13.5% of us, were officially poor in 2015.
The number of poor fell during the year as the nation continued to climb out of the economic crater left by the economy's financial implosion in 2008...
...contrary to the rhetoric of the left and the misleading data from the government, the 43 million in poverty number is vastly exaggerated.
...15 facts about poverty...
For every $1 in income reported by Census, poor households spend $2.40. Most poor people live in adequate housing. Not only is it in good shape, but... 85% of the poor have air conditioning. Nearly three-quarters own a car or a truck, and 31% have more than one. Two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half have a PC, and 43% have internet. Two-thirds own a DVD player. More than half of poor families with kids own a video game system. A third have a big screen plasma or LCD TV...
...what about things like hunger? Hasn't that come back with a vengeance?
In a word, no.
Just 4% of poor parents report that their children were hungry... Only 4% of poor people become homeless in any year, and usually it's temporary. ...they spend $25 for every $1 in income the left claims they have...
...the left uses the poverty data as a bludgeon...
...But instead of just throwing more money at our perceived problem of poverty, our efforts should focus on opportunity, education, training and lifestyle changes.
And while we're at it, maybe we should throw out the government's badly measured poverty gauges...
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The left created more poverty so they could save it with endless election cycle rhetoric.
End 90% of social programs and poverty will fix itself.
—and eliminate the national debt too.
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Money can’t buy happiness. My concern is for the emotional health of those who are leeches on society. You just can’t have a sense of self worth if you are worthless to society. Ending the great welfare state would be beneficial to both the people who get the benefits and to your grandchildren who are being stuck with the bill.
“Poverty” will never go away. Each year, the income level to qualify for government is adjusted for inflation; not so Social Security. Living below government-calculated poverty makes one eligible for food stamps. In most states, Social Security recipients are not eligible for food stamps. Poor people qualify for free medical care. Social Security recipients don’t and each year, Medicare cost goes up; coverage goes down.
The elderly are treated ALMOST as badly as our veterans. Bottom line, government wants the elderly to die quickly. Which, of course, was the intent in the first place.
Poverty here? Pfftt! There are hundreds of millions (and maybe even billions) of Africans and Asians who would sell their souls to live like our "poor" people live.
Step 1...expell every single wetback from the country
Step 2...substantially tighten the welfare requirements for those between 16 and 70
Step 3...problem solved
Our “poor” have an obesity/diabetes epidemic...
More pragmatic
1) Remove taxes on the working poor (FICA, SS, etc). Immediately they are no longer poor.
2) Eliminate fraud plagued EITC. Tighten who qualifies for SSI, EBT, etc.
3) Immediately people are rewarded for work, not for playing the victim card. Immediately people respond to those rewards by working and not becoming parasites on society.
4) No immigrant (legal, illegal, refugee or Naturalized citizen) should be allowed to even APPLY for welfare. If they so much as apply, they are gone. We don’t need to create another dependent group.
The U.S. Poverty Line is at the world 80th percentile income.
the united states has not seen the true effects of poverty since the great depression...I am poor. I don’t live in poverty. I don’t have to decide between shelter or food. most people I no who are poor don’t have to decide whether to feed them selves or there children and end up feeding them selves so they have the ability to work so they can feed there kids that have gone hungry... when ever I hear about kids going hungry if you investigate usually its poor decision making with the parents or parents that care more about there drug or alcohol problems then the will fare of there kids...
The Democrat/Republican uniparty, along with their big-government, leftist peers worldwide, know that their power hinges on an enormous revenue stream.
One tactic they use to extort ever more money from citizens is by inventing crises.
“Poverty in America”, and “Global warming” are two of the biggies.
“poverty” stats are based on income.
You could be retired comfortably and living off of savings and be counted as “poor”.
You are exactly correct.
IIRC, the gub’mint’s definition of ‘poverty’ is the bottom 20% of incomes.
So the poor really will be with us, always.
50% of all Americans make below the median income.
In America, the poor are fat - Africa, not so much
Maybe more --world wide the big concern has become less one of starvation than obesity. The UN even changed the focus of their annual world hunger program to one for 'world malnutrition' that can now include dealing w/ obesity.
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