Poor in America – it ain't getting better
ecthompsonmd
January 26, 2008
There are many ways to look at poverty. No matter how you slice it, poverty has been worse and tougher under the Bush Administation. Reuters reports that “he poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn.” Typically, the time between recessions are periods when poverty declines. But for the last six years, while the stock market boomed, poverty increased from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.3 in 2007. “It’s unusual in an
