‘There Have Never Been as Many Poor People in Our Country as There Are Now’

[Draggingtree]

PJ Media:

 

 

‘There Have Never Been as Many Poor People in Our Country as There Are Now’

by

Bridget Johnson

July 18, 2012 - 4:51 pm

 

Bush's homelessness czar, whose business-oriented solutions turned the tide last decade, talks to PJM: Deep poverty at record high, homeless families on the rise, "and the media is silent on it."

The nation’s homelessness czar in the George W. Bush administration says that programs enacted back then have had a dramatic effect on cutting the chronically homeless population, but warns that families are increasingly being left out in the cold as the economy struggles to recover.

“There have never been as many poor people in our country as there are now,” Philip F. Mangano told PJM today, adding that the “highest number ever in the history of our country” are living in “deep poverty,” which is 50 percent below the poverty line and under.

“One of the great indicators of homelessness is poverty,” he said. “Poverty is the waystation before you fall into homelessness.” And with the economic indicators such as the unemployment rate stagnant as they have been, “you can anticipate more people falling into homelessness.”

They’re startling, tragic facts that rarely make headlines in a campaign dominated by conversations about the middle class and a Congress inundated in debate over middle- and upper-income tax cut extensions.

“The poverty rate has never jumped higher than in the past few years and the media is silent on it,” Mangano said. “Most media coverage is focused on middle-class trauma during the recession, not focused on the very poor.” Read More

http://pjmedia.com/blog/there-have-never-been-as-many-poor-people-in-our-country-as-there-are-now/

[raygun]

Really.

 

And you've fact-checked that against the Irish imigrant wave because their little things weren't workin' for 'em and the British government had this thing and what not, eh?

 

And you want to go there with me?

 

I undertsand how stupid people can possibly be, but you actually want to go THERE with ME?