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So, OP, how would you bring those near-poverty closer to the middle class?
Legislate a living wage?
A jobs program?
Support spending billions for infrastructure improvements that might put people to work?
Free college tuition for STEM-based majors?
Any ideas?
Limit what the government can do, get back to letting the States run their own states according to the wishes of the people, get rid of social welfare programs, get rid of the minimum wage, stop over taxing the rich who provide all of those jobs for people.....
"Nationwide, the count of America's poor remains stuck at a record number: 46.2 million, or 15% of the population, due in part to lingering high unemployment following the recession."
Those people are poor by choice, fueled by bigots who don't understand those "lost" jobs never really existed and were always on borrowed time.
As soon as they stop choosing to be poor, they won't be.
It's not my fault you have a President and Congress who lie and refuse to tell you the Truth, or who are stupid enough to believe their very own lies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
The findings come as President Obama tries to renew his administration's emphasis on the economy, saying in recent speeches that his highest priority is to "rebuild ladders of opportunity" and reverse income inequality.
As nonwhites approach a numerical majority in the U.S., one question is how public programs to lift the disadvantaged should be best focused — on the affirmative action that historically has tried to eliminate the racial barriers seen as the major impediment to economic equality, or simply on improving socioeconomic status for all, regardless of race.
Hardship is particularly growing among whites, based on several measures. Pessimism among that racial group about their families' economic futures has climbed to the highest point since at least 1987. In the most recent AP-GfK poll, 63% of whites called the economy "poor."
"I think it's going to get worse," said Irene Salyers, 52, of Buchanan County, Va., a declining coal region in Appalachia. Married and divorced three times, Salyers now helps run a fruit and vegetable stand with her boyfriend, but it doesn't generate much income. They live mostly off government disability checks.
The Republican House has cost the economy 24 billion in just the last 3 weeks and since 2010 900,000 jobs because of the do nothing know nothing members.
The Republican House has cost the economy 24 billion in just the last 3 weeks and since 2010 900,000 jobs because of the do nothing know nothing members.
Wait a minute... In liberal lala land, government expenditures are a good thing. It's like pixie dust being sprinkled on the economy and stuff. I can picture Obama in his little Tinkerbell outfit, desperately trying to spend everyone elses money to get this train wreck of an economy back on track.
Wait a minute... In liberal lala land, government expenditures are a good thing. It's like pixie dust being sprinkled on the economy and stuff. I can picture Obama in his little Tinkerbell outfit, desperately trying to spend everyone elses money to get this train wreck of an economy back on track.
So instead you have a house that does not even go to meet on a budget. Allows the sequestor to just occur without any direction from the house as to managing.
This is the Republican economy and how slow it is belongs to the House Of Rep.
Interesting.
So you are saying that if the borders are closed tomorrow, the nation's largest employer will increase wages even if that means less profit?
Huh.
The Fed has something like 2.65 million civilian employees. The fed doesn't do anything to make a profit. It only consumes.
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excessive military spending, excessive immigration, excessive illegal immigration, excessive social medicine, excessive out sourcing, and excessive monopolization = lots of new poor populous..
Is this the same right wing websites that skewed the definition of "welfare" making it so college students receiving Financial aid is considered "reliance on welfare" ?
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