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The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high _ 1 in 15 people _
That should come as absolutely NO surprise to anyone. Those receiving public assistance have a birth rate 3 times that of everyone else.
The poorest poor are outbreeding everyone else by a ratio of 3 to 1. The dependent class is growing exponentially larger than those who have to pay to support them. In other news, water is wet.
The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high _ 1 in 15 people _ spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.
New census data paint a stark portrait of the nation's haves and have-nots at a time when unemployment remains persistently high. It comes a week before the government releases first-ever economic data that will show more Hispanics, elderly and working-age poor have fallen into poverty.
If one out of every 15 people in this country are poor, all you really have to do is change the definition of poverty (which is probably in the works even as I type these words), and voila! Shiny new statistics say fewer Americans are poor.
Capitalism isn't the problem. Overbreeding is. Those who receive public assistance have 3 times the birth rate of everyone else. The welfare-dependent class is growing exponentially, 3 times the rate of those who have to pay to support them.
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"The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) gave states greater flexibility to formulate and implement initiatives to reduce welfare dependency and encourage employment for members of low-income families with children. For the nation, in 2006, 10 years after passage of the Act, the birth rate for women 15 to 50 years old receiving public assistance income in the last 12 months was155 births per 1,000 women, about three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (53 births per 1,000 women)."
"For the nation, the birth rate for women receiving public assistance was160 births per 1,000 women, almost three times the rate for women not receiving public assistance (56 births per 1,000 women)."
Who thinks that's sustainable? Who thinks taxpayers will be able to afford to keep paying more and more to financially support an exponentially growing welfare-dependent class?
I'm not for a minute suggesting that poverty is not increasing.
I will say none of these studies takes the underground economy into consideration.
There is a vast deep and wide underground economy in Texas. Couples live as a family unit. Only the mom's wages are accounted for when she applies for benefits.
Contractors report just enough income for SS purposes. Anything over, they just cash the checks and do not report anything to anybody.
Most kids who get reduced and free lunch at our local high school have $100 shoes and cell phones.
The system is being gamed by folks who have had years to figure out how to do it.
But with such high unemployment, shouldn't rents be falling rather than soaring? Maybe it's greedy landlords?
It is the combination of high joblessness and soaring rents that is driving up the food stamp numbers. (Eligibility driven by income minus (housing + medical expenses)).
Note that if/when there is substantial job growth, rents will soar even more and therefore might drive up the food stamp numbers even more.
Do you really believe we have a 90% employment rate? Employment rates for working-age men have been falling for a number of years.
Yup.
and that number is three....what does that coincide with?
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