ABC News:
The Great Recession is rewriting the rules of American poverty. Data from the Census Bureau, released in September, show that during the first year of the recession, incomes fell farther and poverty leaped higher than during almost any other time in a generation.
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With Billions going out in foriegn aid this is a real crime against humanity.
Seems to me that the ten poorest cities have been, in perpetuity, managed by Democrats. Liberal policies impoverish.
Possibly so but look at the fact that Libs are less corrupt. They dont bring home the pork or special interests and fill their own pockets as deeply as the Repubs do. This type of corruption hurts us all.
Trying to make this political is ridiculous, since States like people evolve/change for good or bad, but at this moment in America history all of the States and its citizens are suffering, so instead of trying to blame one party or the other what you should be doing is calling on your entreprenuerial spirit and doing something. The government needs soldiers - be a volunteer!
One of the primary reasons so many cities (a.k.a., "inner cities") tend to be poorer than the surrounding suburban sprawl areas is that the newer sprawl areas are allowed to actually suck public infrastructure resources out of the existing, already built areas.
I won't go into the dynamics of it, because whole books have been written on it and entire semesters of urban planning devoted to it...but people are just now waking up to the fact that sprawl is actually a net COST to regions, not a benefit.
wecome to the United Corporates of America where Greed is good and tough sh*t for the poor.
Any article on this subject not including Erie,PA is bogus. Income levels here sucked even when times were good elsewhere.
And the surrounding counties of North West PA ? Deplorable !!!
The rise of the welfare system, the explosion of citizens on the public dole has paralleled the disastrous destruction and outsourcing of our industrial assets and competence.
In a little more than 30 years we have slid from the most industrialized to the most dependent, bankrupted nation on the face of the earth.
Our administration has speeded up this process instead of returning to a policy of self sufficiency and rebuilding our productive capacity and full employment for the unemployable. Our people are being turned from modern highly skilled and knowledgeable citizens to hopeless, vegetative, and futureless dependents of the state. Our people are being thrown back into the timeless matrix of nature, and nature's laws. Their fate, their life's status is determined by place of birth.
You are mistaking an effect of the economic crisis for the cause. The real cause of the crisis is that the average American is being robbed (usually legally) by the top one percent (income speaking.) Those who have are getting more. Those who have less are losing more. Don't tell me that the pie is infinite and people can "generate capital." Actually, resources and wealth are finite. And it's not going to get better when there are over seven billion people trying to get enough to live.
Kill the growth of the middle class and you kill the growth of that nation. No ifs, ands, or buts.
Yup. We are in such an obvious decline. It's like watching a car accident in slow motion.
On a visit to one of these areas last week it was easy easy to see the strength these people have under a lifetime of dire circumstances. This was no sudden poverty, but a lifetime of coping with it. Those who had vehicles may not have a hood or door on the car, but drove to sell small items on the side of the road to make some money in pouring down rain. Items such as puppies, chickens, shampoo, most anything are sold by these survivors who have a sense of pride and dignity despite their lack of clothes without holes, haircuts, dental or healthcare. Housing is an old really run-down trailer. Many ridicule these people for not working hard enough, yet few could cope as they have.
"In 2008, U.S. median income fell to $50,303 from $52,163 in 2007. That 3.6% decline is the largest one-year drop since records begin. The poverty rate increased to 13.2% from 12.5%, meaning the recession has brought 2.6 million more Americans into poverty. The Economic Policy Institute projects that in the next two years, incomes could decline by another $3,000 and poverty could increase by 1.9 percentage points."
Yay Republican economic policies!!
And while the Dems had control of congress.
Do you seriously think some big reset button takes over when the Congressional leadership changes and that the policies from the previous rule had nothing to do with the state of things? Wow.
Now that you thought about it, do you realize you are just repeating GOP talking points?
"Simple" is the right adjective.
Dems/libs/progressives:
Make sure you do not let Repcons quote these stats and blame BO or the stimulus. As it says in the article, the stats are from 2008 and we know who was in charge then.
I've seen a few comments on these threads where crackpots are trying to blame the rise in poverty on the current president.
Genius, Obama wasnt sworn in until 2009. You cant possibly be that d umb
Oh, never mind, I misread your comment, guess Im the dumb one :P
Cities and counties in "red states" really ought to be doing better financially since they receive more from the Federal Government than they pay in taxes:
States Receiving Most in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:
1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)
In contrast, of the 16 states that are "losers" -- receiving less in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes -- 69% are Blue States that voted for Al Gore in 2000. Indeed, 11 of the 14 (79%) of the states receiving the least federal spending per dollar of federal taxes paid are Blue States. Here are the Top 10 states that supply feed for the federal trough:
States Receiving Least in Federal Spending Per Dollar of Federal Taxes Paid:
1. New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)
Your leader in the club house.......................DC !!!!!
Heck-of-a-job!
I suppose that has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the Federal Government is located in DC. That small fact seems to completely escape you
I suppose that would have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is located in DC. That fact completely went right over your head
supply side economics turned those cities poor
Ross Perot was right. That giant sucking sound is being heard all over America.
What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP!
Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected
a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)… since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)… since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)…. since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican Mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)… since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)… since 1952;
Newark, NJ (10th)… since 1907.
Einstein once said, “The definition of insanity is doing
the same thing over and over again and always
expecting different results.”
It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats -
And they are still disadvantaged…
Hmmm…
So you think somehow a mayor is supposed to turn around the economic downfall of their city while the state and federal governments do nothing? Please do the research, how many of the States these cities are a part of are red. Answer, most of them.
You didn't read the list, did ya?
NY,PA,NJ,Mo,Oh, Mi are NOT red states.
I think the mayor is a representation of the problems these cities/communities have.
The richest states:
Rank ↓ State ↓ 2008 ↓ 2007 ↓ 2004-2006 ↓
1 Maryland $70,545 $68,080 $62,372
2 New Jersey $70,378 $67,035 $64,169
3 Connecticut $68,595 $65,967 $59,972
4 Alaska $68,460 $64,333 $57,639
5 Hawaii $67,214 $63,746 $60,681
6 Massachusetts $65,401 $62,365 $56,236
7 New Hampshire $63,731 $62,369 $60,489
8 Virginia $61,233 $59,562 $55,108
9 California $61,021 $59,948 $53,770
10 Washington $58,078 $55,591 $53,439
11 Delaware $57,989 $54,610 $52,214
District of Columbia $57,936 $54,317 $47,221 (2005)[3]PDF
12 Minnesota $57,288 $55,082 $57,363
13 Colorado $56,993 $55,212 $54,039
Now do cost of living adjustments and see how poor the northeast really is. That's the one good thing about the housing bust up there. It's helping to bring your home prices back into reality.
I read an article that states these are still the richest states despite the housing bust. No matter what the empirical evidence is, you will twist it to meet your world view because that is what you want to believe.
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First Posted: 10-19-09 08:54 AM | Updated: 10-19-09 09:05 AM