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Obamanomics? More Chidren Live In Poverty Now Than During Crisis
For all the back-patting exuberance over manipulated record high stock prices and record periods of illusory job gains, it appears the administration and its Obamanomics forgot one important thing - the children! As USA Today reports, a higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday.
“Where you grew up is similar to where you end up when you’re an adult,” Bloome said. “That helps perpetuate racial segregation.”
About 22% of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013, compared with 18% in 2008, the foundation's 2015 Kids Count Data Book reported. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Human and Health Service's official poverty line was $23,624 for a family with two adults and two children.
“The fact that it’s happening is disturbing on lots of levels,” said Laura Speer, the associate director for policy reform and advocacy at the Casey Foundation, a non-profit based in Baltimore. “Those kids often don’t have the access to the things they need to thrive.” The foundation says its mission is to help low-income children in the U.S. by providing grants and advocating for policies that promote economic opportunity.
Millions of low-income U.S. families with children face considerable daily obstacles that can threaten the entire family’s stability and lead to lifelong difficulties for their kids. A family-supporting job that provides a steady source of parental income and opportunities for advancement is critical to moving children out of poverty.
But having a job, even one that pays enough to support a family, is only part of the solution. Working parents need access to paid time off to adequately care for themselves and their children. Access to affordable, high-quality, flexible child care is critical for all working parents with young children, but the need is especially great for those parents working in low-paying jobs with irregular, often erratic work hours.
Even several years after the recession ended, the number of children living in low-income working families continues to increase. In 2013, one in four children, 18.7 million, lived in a low-income working family in the United States. This is 1.7 million more than in 2008. And, 27 percent of children in low-income working families are younger than age 6.
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trickle-up poverty
“Hope clouds observation.”
-- Frank Herbert, Dune
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Obamanomics? More Chidren Live In Poverty Now Than During Crisis
Shhhh! His sycophant MSM says, "Shut your mouth!"
Obozo the
OUND POTUS,
he ain't black
he ain't white
he ain't rich
he ain't poor
he's just bankster owned.
Wasnt it about 2 million children that came across the border when Obama announced his amnesty ?
Obviously Planned Parenthood is dropping the ball here. How did they allow millions of Black an minority babies to make it out of the womb? Talk about a massive loss in potential profit from the tiny hearts, lungs, and brains.
Such a shame.
Support the DNC - Abort a Black baby
The irony lies in the murdering of their own base.
Then again, voting is inconsequential.
"a higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession"
How is that possible? The 'Great Recession' hasn't ended.
And they love him for it.
yep..."how's that hopey-changey thing workin' out for ya?"
The "War on Poverty" begun by LBJ continues to be the stunning success it's always been.
What is it--$22 trillion and counting?
How does $22 Trillion NOT count as 'Reparations?'
BECAUSE. MY PEOPLE ARE STILL JOBLESS AND HOMELESS AND I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!
I'M FUCKING MICHAEL JORDAN YOU UNGRATEFUL CHICAGO FUCKS!
NEVER FORGET THAT!
BECAUSE. MY PEOPLE ARE STILL JOBLESS AND HOMELESS AND I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!
I'M FUCKING MICHAEL JORDAN YOU UNGRATEFUL CHICAGO FUCKS!
NEVER FORGET THAT!
BECAUSE. MY PEOPLE ARE STILL JOBLESS AND HOMELESS AND I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!
I'M FUCKING MICHAEL JORDAN YOU UNGRATEFUL CHICAGO FUCKS!
NEVER FORGET THAT!
Because Bush fucked it up SO bad, not even the great Obama could fix it. He needs 4 more years. Possibly 8. He'll let you know how much longer he's staying in office past his second term shortly.
The lineup for '16 is so fucken pathetic that it's entirely probable for Baraklin Hooseino Obievelt the second to ascend to the throne once more, or twice more, or even forevers.
Just takes a few executive orders. SCOTUS is fully compliant and the GOP will do nothing to stop him. Only Hilary stands in the way of Obama and a 3rd term.
That would provide sufficient motivation for becoming a true citizen. I'd reclaim my sovereignty. I truly can conceive it happening, but that doesn't mean shit in this land of bloodless revolutions called progress and leaning forward.
Still got 18 months left to kill us all
He may not kill us, but the country, as we once knew it, will be long gone...
The redistribution of wealth insures no child will be left behind.
A zero in every pot.
USA Today prints truthiness? Must have been hacked
Seems the Obama's are avoiding poverty quite well. The rest of us- not so much
Dear Leader is a LIAR
You just noticed?
slow learner
It's ok....not to worry the Jewish Reserve is still on 'look-out' for that now evasive 'ripple'....selfish swines the lot of them!
All graphable metrics of all aspects of human well-being and broad social and economic vitality in the USA hit an inflection point in the early 80's and are now deteriorating along a parabolic curve.
It is all those pathetic racist Americans letting Obama down and not helping the economy recover.
Sure, things are so awesome why not bring in children from south of the border! Then our children can appreciate how much worse it could be having lice, scabies and bizarre respiratory viruses, Chagas and a few interesting parasites I haven't seen in a while.
Miffed
That's so scary!
But everone no's the chillen gotsem sum food insecurity donchano.
Well, this study has data through 2013. Since the economy, by official measures, has added about 4 million jobs since then, it's a bit out of date.
Numbers on affordable housing likely worse, poverty likely better.
If they'd only impoverish a few million more white people then all of this would be square and we could get back to business as usual.
its because the usa`s black pollution have on average 10 children from 10 different wannabe thugs
every new generation repeat its parents habit
now its called tradition
Here's the problem: my wife and I were semi-struggling financially when we were first married (married? what a foreign concept to a large chunk of our population!). 25 years ago an "oops" occurred and nine months later came child #1. Child #2 was not an "oops" and arrived 2.5 years later. We were still semi-struggling financially and since we also figured that man-to-man defense was better than a zone defense......I obtained a vasectomy. Point? We felt confident that we could properly raise two children, but were concerned that any more would, financially, be problematic. Those two kids are now 24 and 21 and either are or will be able to be happy, productive and independent adults.
Why is it that the government encourages those least able to successfully to raise children (usually without a father) to have even more children and browbeats the "privileged class" which tries to hide from them?
and we throw away 40% of the food we grow in the Land of the Free. that food could be used to feed people.
So, all you wingnuts who lurk here, poverty is Obama's fault? Give me a break! 35 fucking years of St. Ronnie's voodoo economics with the laffer curve has ruined this country! So, when are the stupid voters going to vote in their own interest? I think we need a revolution. Sharpen the pitcforks and take the ill gotten gains from the oligarchs!
Yeah, lets start with the guy in the White House.
LOL - that's like the stupidest thing I've read here in months, and that's sayin something. Gotta move beyond the '70's baldski.
Where you grew up is similar to where you end up when you’re an adult,” Bloome said.
That would be true if you grew up near a cemetery, where most adults "end up". But there are intervening moments of life that seperate our origin from our demise.
It's da Nignomics Trickle Down (& shiite) Theory. What can't be stolen by Bozo and Brown Hoard might trickle down to the serfs.
Fuck'em - their shitassed parents ( sorry - parent) voted for the mulatto trannie.
No one cares.
SH
but, but, but, it's all Reagan's fault, don't ya know
“Where you grew up is similar to where you end up when you’re an adult,” Bloome said. “That helps perpetuate racial segregation.”
Seriously?
"But having a job, even one that pays enough to support a family, is only part of the solution. Working parents need access to paid time off to adequately care for themselves and their children. Access to affordable, high-quality, flexible child care is critical for all working parents with young children, but the need is especially great for those parents working in low-paying jobs with irregular, often erratic work hours"
-This reads like a handout from the "ministry of truth"
A job doesn't have to be low paying to have irregular, often erratic work hours. In fact, the higher paid I get the more irregular, erratic my work hours become.
Bush's fault. Clearly.