If this isn’t a quagmire, nothing is.
September 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — The income of American households fell only slightly last year despite the severe recession because of income gains among the elderly, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.
But the number of people in poverty reached its highest level in 51 years.
If that is true, then the poverty level in the U.S. isworse than it was when Lyndon Johnson declared his “war on poverty.”
What are we, Italy? Here, look at this chart:
It just has to be George Bush’s fault, somehow!
And one more thing. I love this line:
“The good news is there’s less bad news than we thought,” says Sheldon Danziger of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
Democrats, 2010: less bad news than we thought!
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