These statistics keep slamming us in the face, but we just go right on believing that we Americans live in the Numero Uno nation.
So, here we are right neck and neck with good old Romania, Think of it, 23% of our children living in poverty. Wow! They will really have some neat stories to tell once they pull themselves up by the boot straps and realize their Great American Dream. Those that don't get gunned down in a drive by, or tossed in the slammer.
Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:52 PM
Subject: [acb-chat] (no subject)Thom's blog
23% of all American children live in poverty
Anyone who doubts the United States has been in an economic free fall for
the last three decades should check out the new United Nations Children's
Fund report on child poverty. OF the 34 wealthiest nations looked at by
UNICEF - the United States has the second highest child poverty rate of all
of them - with a staggering 23% of all American children living in poverty.
Only two nations - the United States and Romania have child poverty rates
above 20%. That number would be even higher except for federal life lines
like food stamps - which reduced the number of children in extreme poverty
by half last year. Unfortunately - with unemployment benefits expiring
around the nation - and Republicans gutting the food stamp programs - things
could get a lot tougher for children in America.
-Thom Hartmann
Regards,
Claude Everett
"Labor is prior to and independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if
labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves
much the higher consideration."
Abraham Lincoln,
Congressional address 1861
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