'Deep Poverty' on the Rise in US

[dajoki]

Most States Experience Significant Rise In Levels Of 'Deep Poverty'
The Huffington Post Alexander Eichler First Posted: 9/23/11 11:41 AM ET Updated: 9/23/11 11:42 AM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/deep-poverty_n_977749.html


The closer one looks at the Census data on American poverty, the more discouraging it becomes.

It was already known that the national poverty rate climbed to 15.1 percent last year, the greatest percentage since 1993, and that the actual number of Americans living in poverty had hit 46.2 million, the highest number since the Census Bureau began measuring poverty in 1959.

It was known that the median household income fell more than 2 percent in 2010. And it was known that a million more children fell into poverty in 2010, bringing the total to about 15.7 million -- and that of all the children in America age six or younger, one in four now live in poverty.

The latest analysis of Census data, from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, further illustrates how widespread the problem of want in America has become. According to the CBPP, 39 states, plus the District of Columbia, have experienced significant rises in their levels of "deep poverty" in the past four years -- that is, people living on incomes that are less than half the poverty line.

No states saw a decline in their deep poverty rates.

The findings make clear how far-reaching the effects of the recession have been, and align with other studies that have shown deep poverty increasing in the U.S. over the past two decades. Nationwide, some 6.7 percent of Americans were living in deep poverty in 2010 -- the highest rate since the government started tracking this number in 1975. Nearly one in 10 children are counted in this category.

As the CBPP noted in an earlier blog post, one reason for the rise in deep poverty in recent years is that low-income families have access to fewer public resources than they used to. Skyrocketing unemployment and falling wages have also played a role.

The below graphic is by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities:

[WingDinger]

1. Bullshit, we have no poor in America. They have refrigerators, and heeby geebies

I aint got time for that now.

[dajoki]

6. Sounds just like...

Robert Rector and the heritage foundation. You can't be poor if you own a refrigerator, it don't matter how old it is or that there is nothing in it. They put that same report out every year. Disgusting!!

[bengalherder]

19. But the poor don't own refrigerators

they RENT them from the landlord.

Or is mere access to refrigeration a sign one is not REALLY, TRULY poor?

[ixion]

2. "Skyrocketing unemployment and falling wages have also played a role."

Gee, ya think? :eyes:

[midnight]

3. This is what a jobless recovery looks like.... It cuts into the profits

of the business leaders in this country to hire Americans... So they do a wonderful job teaching HR how not to hire Americans...


PERM Fake Job Ads defraud Americans to secure green cards fo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU&feature=related

[Mimosa]

4. K&R This shows why many people are depressed, disappointed and angry.

There are so many people who can barely hang on any more. This affects us ALL!

[dajoki]

15. Amen n/t

[mdmc]

16. 1

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Whoopeee! Our strategeries is working." - RepubliWankers (R)

"The way to address this so-called problem (smirk, sneer) is to grant MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE special tax cuts for Republicon fatcats. Smirk. Let us TRICKLE DOWN on you American PEEons some more. Smirk. Sneer."

- RepubliWankers (R)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cPOoKn1sLvk/TGLSPoMhNYI/AAAAAAAABmo/v8id1eSVgCE/s1600/trickle+down.jpg

[dajoki]

7. The pissers and the pissed on...

it will never change.

[OhioChick]

8. K&R n/t

[Pigheaded]

9. Our income is down 38%

I took a cut and my bride was laid off.

PH

[Mimosa]

10. PH, hope things get better.

Welcome to Democratic Underground. :)

Where at least we care. ;)

[dajoki]

14. I know how you feel...

I am disabled and my wife is about to run out of unemployment.

[Riftaxe]

11. K&R

thanks for posting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. K&R

[smokey nj]

13. Kick!

[CrispyQ]

17. That's a shameful map for the "greatest country on the planet." --nt

[Tsiyu]

18. It's rare for anyone to truly care about poverty

until one is mired in it.

Now, the poor fight against the poor while the rich watch us all as if we were game roosters.

And the politicians keep appealing to a middle class which no longer exists. As if the poor vote doesn't matter! Even as the number of poor keeps growing and growing.

It's really scary and sad at the same time.


K&R