World's Highest Standard of living!?!
There's no way like the American Way!!!
There's no way like the American Way!!!
That there are some 31 million to 32 million poor Americans, a number greater than in 1965 when the War on Poverty began. Evidence mounts, however, that the Census Bureau's poverty report dramatically understates the living standards of low income Americans.
"There's strong evidence that over the past five years, record numbers of lower-income Americans find themselves in a more precarious economic position than at any time in recent memory," said Mark R. Rank, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of "One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All."
Americans have always believed that hard work will bring rewards, but vast numbers now cannot meet their bills even with two or three jobs. More than one in 10 citizens live below the poverty line, and the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening.
Under President George W Bush an extra 5.4 million have slipped below the poverty line. Yet they are not a story of the unemployed or the destitute. Most have jobs. Many have two. Amos Lumpkins has work and his children go to school. But the economy, stripped of worker benefits like healthcare, is having trouble providing good wages.
3 comments:
I saw the first photo (the one with the highest standards with the queue of poor people) exposed here in Madrid (the original one :-)).
Nice to see it here too :-)
Regards from Spain,
Paquito.
http://paquito4ever.blogspot.com
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This is not fair. You have a few pictures from the great depression and homeless people today. That does not represent the reality of the situation in america. Of course there are more poor people today than in 1960, the population in general has increased dramatically, immigration being one of the causes. I also noticed how the quote for the guy from Washington University said RECENT memory.
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