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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_census_poverty;_ylt=Auy7mAtl_.FNrRCNDZCDMMOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNocTl0N2RxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwOTE3L3VzX2NlbnN1c19wb3ZlcnR5BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDY2Vuc3VzMWluN2Ft (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_census_poverty;_ylt=Auy7mAtl_.FNrRCNDZCDMMOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNocTl0N2RxBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwOTE3L3VzX2NlbnN1c19wb3ZlcnR5BGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDY2Vuc3VzMWluN2Ft)
WASHINGTON – The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year, leaving one in seven Americans in poverty.
The overall poverty rate climbed to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people, the Census Bureau said Thursday in its annual report on the economic well-being of U.S. households. The report covers 2009, President Barack Obama's first year in office.
The poverty rate increased from 13.2 percent, or 39.8 million people, in 2008.
The share of Americans without health coverage rose from 15.4 percent to 16.7 percent — or 50.7 million people — mostly because of the loss of employer-provided health insurance during the recession. Congress passed a health overhaul this year to address the rising numbers of uninsured people, but its main provisions will not take effect until 2014.
In a statement, President Barack Obama called 2009 a tough year for working families but said it could have been worse.
"Because of the Recovery Act and many other programs providing tax relief and income support to a majority of working families — and especially those most in need — millions of Americans were kept out of poverty last year," Obama said.
The new figures come at a politically sensitive time, just weeks before the Nov. 2 congressional elections, when voters restive about high unemployment and the slow pace of economic improvement will decide whether to keep Democrats in power in the House and Senate or turn to Republicans.
The 14.3 percent poverty rate, which covers all ages, was the highest since 1994. It was lower than predicted by many demographers who were bracing for a record gain based on last year's skyrocketing unemployment. Many had expected a range of 14.7 percent to 15 percent.
Broken down by state, Mississippi had the highest share of poor people, at 23.1 percent, according to rough calculations by the Census Bureau. It was followed by Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas and Georgia. On the other end of the scale, New Hampshire had the lowest share, at 7.8 percent.
Analysts said the full blow of lost incomes was cushioned somewhat by increases in Social Security payments in 2009 as well as federal expansions of unemployment insurance, which rose substantially under the economic stimulus program. With the additional unemployment benefits, workers were eligible for extensions that gave them up to 99 weeks of payments after a layoff.
David Johnson, the chief of the Census Bureau's household economics division, estimated that expanded unemployment benefits helped keep 3.3 million people out of poverty last year.
He said demographic changes, too, were a factor as many families "doubled up" in single homes and young adults ages 25 to 34 moved back in with their parents to save money in the economic downturn.
The 2009 poverty level was set at $21,954 for a family of four, based on an official government calculation that includes only cash income, before tax deductions. It excludes capital gains or accumulated wealth, such as home ownership, as well as noncash aid such as food stamps.
An additional 7.8 million people would have been counted above the poverty line if food stamps and tax credits were included as income, Johnson said.
Last year saw the biggest single-year increase in Americans without health insurance, lifting the total number to the highest since the government began tracking the figures in 1987. The number of people covered by employment-based health plans declined from 176.3 million to 169.7 million, although those losses were partially offset by gains in government health insurance such as Medicaid and Medicare.
Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, said additional increases in the uninsured are probable in the short run.
In 2014, under the new health law, Medicaid will be expanded to pick up millions more low-income people, and the government will offer tax credits for many middle-income households to use to buy coverage through new online insurance markets in each state.
By 2019, the government has estimated that nearly 93 percent of the U.S. population will have health insurance, roughly a 10 percentage point increase from today's level.
Other census findings:
_Among the working-age population, ages 18 to 64, poverty rose from 11.7 percent to 12.9 percent. That puts it at the highest since the 1960s, when the government launched a war on poverty that expanded the federal role in social welfare programs from education to health care.
_Poverty rose among all race and ethnic groups, but stood at higher levels for blacks and Hispanics. The number of Hispanics in poverty increased from 23.2 percent to 25.3 percent; for blacks it increased from 24.7 percent to 25.8 percent. The number of whites in poverty rose from 8.6 percent to 9.4 percent.
_Child poverty rose from 19 percent to 20.7 percent.
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Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar contributed to this report.
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want some poverty hang out with me for a month---lol
try and eat like me on 300 dollars a month for food
And mental health and the justice are considering curfewing me or limiting my in public abilities due to my violence and erratic behavior on the rise again. Obviously work is not an option, my people skills are as low as ever.
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As long as the government sees that young people do not use dangerous steeeeroids and get their own law enforcement into jails that cost millions of $$ ey for each person, everything is good in the US.
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Liberals are the reason there is so much poverty in the Black Communities.. I am glad there are people like this making a stand to the status quo....
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whatever number they give on negative stats like this you could usually triple it.............or at least double it............urban violence, jobless claims, americans livign in poverty, anything to do with blacks and prison or violence.........they always lowball .............the REAL figures are MUCH higher
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whatever number they give on negative stats like this you could usually triple it.............or at least double it............urban violence, jobless claims, americans livign in poverty, anything to do with blacks and prison or violence.........they always lowball .............the REAL figures are MUCH higher
You always have a comment on everything. Kinda diminishes the impact, just FYI.
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America, the land of the free, the land of opportunity... .. .
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want some poverty hang out with me for a month---lol
try and eat like me on 300 dollars a month for food
And mental health and the justice are considering curfewing me or limiting my in public abilities due to my violence and erratic behavior on the rise again. Obviously work is not an option, my people skills are as low as ever.
that is pretty low for a dude your size
what have you done recently to warrant those sanctions?
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Being in "poverty" in the USA still means you are one of the 10% of best-off people in the world. Something fat Michael Moore forgets to mention in his movies. ::)
PS - the USA is the best!!!
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i dont think these in poverty consider themselves best off
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Being in "poverty" in the USA still means you are one of the 10% of best-off people in the world. Something fat Michael Moore forgets to mention in his movies. ::)
PS - the USA is the best!!!
So by that logic you don't count Europe at all? :D
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As long as the government sees that young people do not use dangerous steeeeroids and get their own law enforcement into jails that cost millions of $$ ey for each person, everything is good in the US.
Keeps the eye away from the REAL issues...
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America, the land of the free, the land of opportunity... .. .
LOL :D
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These are some really scary stats.
*consults the Bill Hicks book of social wisdom*
If they ditched even a part of the military spending folks could get the local help needed to sort themselves out.
Time I dug up his cd's, listened to some more of his ranting and got the quotes right. Wish he was alive and offering his shocked outrage at some of the newer developments he never got to see. May he RIP.
The homeless situation is galloping here down under too. And it's been one really cold wet winter.
:(
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Being in "poverty" in the USA still means you are one of the 10% of best-off people in the world. Something fat Michael Moore forgets to mention in his movies. ::)
PS - the USA is the best!!!
Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do as we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
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Being in "poverty" in the USA still means you are one of the 10% of best-off people in the world. Something fat Michael Moore forgets to mention in his movies. ::)
PS - the USA is the best!!!
ROFL. There are million of people in Africa living far better lives than the bottom of america. You can't look just at dollar signs. You gotta look at how much food they can afford.
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the world is on its end
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Poverty helped me to lose weight.
My daily food schedule...
2 coffees,
2 organic eggs,
8 slices bread,
4 apples
Treat on weekend: 1 coke light
Only money I need/spend is for going out and socializing.
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Poverty helped me to lose weight.
My daily food schedule...
2 coffees,
2 organic eggs,
8 slices bread,
4 apples
Treat on weekend: 1 coke light
Only money I need/spend is for going out and socializing.
ahahaha, that's pathetic.
You'll end like wavelength, TA or JNN, looking like you're straight outta Auschwitz...
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ahahaha, that's pathetic.
You'll end like wavelength, TA or JNN, looking like you're straight outta Auschwitz...
Sau du :D
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sadly america is failing miserably to provide jobs to people and also the new generation is very lazy and don't want to have jobs, so couple those two factors and you got terrible outlook for america. Time for Islam to take over the country as a religion and way of life, put structure in these young peoples lives, and Allah will once again bless America.
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want some poverty hang out with me for a month---lol
try and eat like me on 300 dollars a month for food
And mental health and the justice are considering curfewing me or limiting my in public abilities due to my violence and erratic behavior on the rise again. Obviously work is not an option, my people skills are as low as ever.
all they have to do is strap a chain and ball to your ankle and put you on the side of the road to clean up garbage for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and problem with be solved, let you go home at night, wouldn't need any people skills at all and earn your own living.
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all they have to do is strap a chain and ball to your ankle and put you on the side of the road to clean up garbage for 8 hours a day 5 days a week and problem with be solved, let you go home at night, wouldn't need any people skills at all and earn your own living.
A smelly brown fucker like yourself talking about earning a living ::)
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A smelly brown fucker like yourself talking about earning a living ::)
as strange as it sounds, he may have a point. lol. Probably not much else I could do
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sadly Islam is failing miserably and you got terrible outlook for Muslims. Time for America to take over the country as a way of life, put structure in these young peoples lives, and Allah will punish me for being homosexual. I am fine with that. I am a gay musilm who will be hung, but I live with it, because I am gay.
It's also possible they will stone you to death or hang you, like you said.
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ahahaha, that's pathetic.
You'll end like wavelength, TA or JNN, looking like you're straight outta Auschwitz...
where's your picture big shot? ::)
(http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/img/user_images/growable/2009/07/04/18099922/profilepic/1B9cE3gk1QkuMpyNvyw1Ek5vsN04nd735.jpeg)
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Being in "poverty" in the USA still means you are one of the 10% of best-off people in the world. Something fat Michael Moore forgets to mention in his movies. ::)
PS - the USA is the best!!!
i agree funny you see poor people in the usa and they are extremely fat and obese... in other countries if you are in poverty you are skinny and dieing...
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i agree funny you see poor people in the usa and they are extremely fat and obese... in other countries if you are in poverty you are skinny and dieing...
probably because a harmburger with fries and a gallon of coke costs 0.000000004$
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i agree funny you see poor people in the usa and they are extremely fat and obese... in other countries if you are in poverty you are skinny and dieing...
That`s stupid, you can gain weight, and still be poor as hell. There more likely to live on shitty foods low in protein. Your metabolism slows down, and eating fuck all will cause you to gain a ton. Just eat a bunch of sugar loaded kraft dinner for a year and see what happens.
Many poor as fuck countries have fat people. It depends on the local diet. Of course there not starving to death. But it that what it takes for you to give a fuck :-\
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Anybody want to find and post the poverty rates for their country? :D
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Anybody want to find and post the poverty rates for their country? :D
Here is my country Taiwanhttp://www.indexmundi.com/taiwan/population_below_poverty_line.html (http://www.indexmundi.com/taiwan/population_below_poverty_line.html)
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Here is my country Taiwanhttp://www.indexmundi.com/taiwan/population_below_poverty_line.html (http://www.indexmundi.com/taiwan/population_below_poverty_line.html)
Thanks, that link led to this one......... :D
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=tw&v=69
A few factors to take in while looking at the chart......population #'s, wealth of the nation, etc.
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That`s stupid, you can gain weight, and still be poor as hell. There more likely to live on shitty foods low in protein. Your metabolism slows down, and eating fuck all will cause you to gain a ton. Just eat a bunch of sugar loaded kraft dinner for a year and see what happens.
Many poor as fuck countries have fat people. It depends on the local diet. Of course there not starving to death. But it that what it takes for you to give a fuck :-\
More than likely they're spending what little they have supersizing McDonald's #4 a few times a day. More than likely it's this kinda retardation that keeps them poor.
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donkey dissing wave?
did i miss something?
you're both alphas btw
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in america the nutritional problem with the poor isnt malnutrition, its poor nutrition.........
our poor are obese and unhealthy
and dont give me that shit....."its too expensive to eat healthy, so they have to eat McDonalds"
have you seen the price of a "value" meal from there lately
for what it costs to feed a man, woman, and child at McDonalds for ONE meal...........you can buy enough skinless chicken breast and brown rice to feed a family for a week pretty much
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Sau du :D
Na was denn!!
wenn du keine Kohle hast, kauf dir Eier, Milch und Haferflocken, so kriegst du wenigstens noch was drauf.
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where's your picture big shot? ::)
(http://bodyspace.bodybuilding.com/img/user_images/growable/2009/07/04/18099922/profilepic/1B9cE3gk1QkuMpyNvyw1Ek5vsN04nd735.jpeg)
You're ripped, but you're tiny.
What did you weigh in that shot, 55kg?
btw, you should work your traps.
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Thats an appalling statistic in a country with as much wealth as we have....
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the govt shouldnt give them food stamps they should send them healthy food with drugs in them that make them want to work and not be lazy.
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You're ripped, but you're tiny.
What did you weigh in that shot, 55kg?
btw, you should work your traps.
Thanks for the insight pops ::)
;D
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donkey dissing wave?
did i miss something?
you're both alphas btw
thanks turkish stud, the piefke is just grumpy, that's all ;D