The US Census bureau released a report showing that poverty in America has increased.
You should search for this story.
See how many reports contain this fact.
THE US poverty rate rose in 2004 for the fourth year in a row, driven by an increase in poor whites while the median income for Americans as a whole remained roughly flat, the US Government said overnight.
The per centage of the US population living in poverty rose to 12.7 per cent from 12.5 per cent in 2003, as 1.1 million more people slipped into poverty last year, the US Census Bureau said in its annual poverty report.
The ranks of the poor rose to 37.0 million from 35.9 million the previous year, the report said....
Non-Hispanic whites were the only group that saw its poverty rate rise to hit 8.6 per cent for 2004 compared with 8.2 per cent in 2003. The poverty rate declined for Asians and remained unchanged for blacks and Hispanics, the report showed. (emphasis mine)
Almost all of the reports notice that
Black households had the lowest median income among race groups, at $30,134 ($40,340), while Asian households had the highest, at $57,518. The median-income for non-Hispanic white households was $48,977 and was $34,241 for Hispanic households.
But fail to mention that only White mid-Westerners under 64 are losing ground.
Some notice that the poverty rate
declined for those age 65 and older
Strange? Not when you consider that the New York Times missed this fact as well but does include comments from Democrats about the overall numbers
"The growth in the economy is not going to families," said Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island. "It's in stark contrast to what happened during the Clinton administration."
And you have to love this quote they managed to illicit from the American Enterprise Institute
"It looks like the gains from the recovery haven't really filtered down," said Phillip L. Swagel, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research group in Washington. "The gains have gone to owners of capital and not to workers."
He sounds like Bernie Sanders.
But of course he meant the gains have not gone to white, midwestern workers between 18 and 64.
If he said this at all....
