US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.

The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest since 1965.

Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor. More discouraged workers are giving up on the job market, leaving them vulnerable as unemployment aid begins to run out. Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty, including in such political battlegrounds as Colorado, Florida and Nevada, where voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth.

"I grew up going to Hawaii every summer. Now I'm here, applying for assistance because it's hard to make ends meet. It's very hard to adjust," said Laura Fritz, 27, of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, describing her slide from rich to poor as she filled out aid forms at a county center. Since 2000, large swaths of Jefferson County just outside Denver have seen poverty nearly double.

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Welcome to tne end result of the Great Society...

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And what is appaling is that these poor voters - most of them anyway - are going to vote to keep the current stain and his regime in place.

 

A proposal for a new voting law....voters must prove they have some sort of intelligence!

 

Oh...also....a voter has to prove that they are a legal citizen of the US, and prove residency sufficient to vote in their precint or locale.

 

I know....crazy huh?

 

But if the US allows voters to vote who cannot prove legal residency or legal citizenship....then we could open up voting for all the pepole in the world - couldn't we?

 

And - someone please explain this to me....why are liberals (and the liberal legal mouthpiece ACLU) AGAINST voter ID? Truly! What is their arguement?