Poverty rate rises- of course it does! Republicans dont give a rip about the poor!!

[reeds]

This really hits the nail on the head...""Most of that growth in the economy over the last couple of years has gone to higher income people and has taken the form of capital income — interest, rents, dividends," Smeeding said."

It is and always has been the republican way- feed the rich..give them the tax breaks...piss on the poor, trashy people..When will you fools realize this??? NEVER


Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
14 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

The percentage of people without health insurance did not change.

Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.

Asians were the only ethnic group to show a decline in poverty — from 11.8 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent last year. The poverty rate among the elderly declined as well, from 10.2 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent last year.

The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold — 11.3 percent of the population.

The number of people without health insurance grew from 45 million to 45.8 million. At the same time, the number of people with health insurance coverage grew by 2 million last year.

Charles Nelson, an assistant division chief at the Census Bureau, said the percentage of uninsured remained steady because of an "increase in government coverage, notably Medicaid and the state children's health insurance program, that offset a decline in employment-based coverage."

The median household income, meanwhile, stood at $44,389, unchanged from 2003. Among racial and ethnic groups blacks had the lowest median income and Asians the highest. Median income refers to the point at which half of households earn more and half earn less.

Regionally, income declined only in the Midwest, down 2.8 percent to $44,657. The South was the poorest region and the Northeast and the West had the highest median incomes.

The increase in poverty came despite strong economic growth, which helped create 2.2 million jobs last year.

"I guess what happened last year was kind of similar to what happened in the early 1990s where you had a recession that was officially over and then you had several years after that of rising poverty," Nelson said. "... These numbers do reflect changes between 2003 and 2004. They don't reflect any improvements in the economy in 2005."

Tim Smeeding, an economics professor at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, says the nation has experienced a shift from earnings income to capital income and capital gains, which aren't reflected in the Census Bureau's latest numbers.

"Most of that growth in the economy over the last couple of years has gone to higher income people and has taken the form of capital income — interest, rents, dividends," Smeeding said.

The poverty threshold differs by the size and makeup of a household. For instance, a family of four with two children was considered living in poverty if income was $19,157 or less. For a family of two with no children, it was $12,649. For a person 65 and over living alone, it was 9,060.

The estimates on poverty, uninsured and income are based on supplements to the bureau's Current Population Survey, and are conducted over three months, beginning in February, at about 100,000 households nationwide.

The only city with a million or more residents that exhibited a significant change in poverty level last year was New York City, which saw the rate increase from 19 percent to 20.3 percent.

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[Drbio]

*yawn*


YOUR President will rescue you reeds.

[reeds]

Funny, when you know I am correct, your reply is always "yawn". How has he rescued the poor over his time in office? Exactally- he hasnt!! Did you read the very first line? In case not, I will show it to you again. "The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. ". FOURTH Consecutive year?? Hmmm..how many years has your hero been in office? Oh, let me guess..its all Clintons fault right? MORON Bush can do NO wrong with you people with blinders on..

oh, and again- DONT EVER call that jackass MY president!!!!!

[MavKikiNYC]

Originally posted by: reeds
Funny, when you know I am correct, your reply is always "yawn". How has he rescued the poor over his time in office? Exactally- he hasnt!! Did you read the very first line? In case not, I will show it to you again. "The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. ". FOURTH Consecutive year?? Hmmm..how many years has your hero been in office? Oh, let me guess..its all Clintons fault right? MORON Bush can do NO wrong with you people with blinders on..

oh, and again- DONT EVER call that jackass MY president!!!!!

Not only is he YOUR President, he's the Democrats' Daddy.

[reeds]

HAHA..as usual, the Dems will have to come along in four years and clean up the mess he has made..if that is possible...and it will happen..who knows, maybe Hillary will by your DADDY!! bahahahahahahaha..would that be a riot...Im sure she cant do worse than the joke from TEXAS...

[Drbio]

Please reeds...come in off the ledge....YOUR President...Mr. George W. Bush....yes....YOUR President will save you.


And his brother may save you in the next election. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[Mavdog]

I know that some prefer to wallow in superflous invective, but the above Census Bureau report begs the question: just why is the poverty rate increasing?

Why are there more Americans today who live below the poverty line than lived below the poverty line last year (and the year before that, etc), and why has the median income not shown any increase over the last year (meaning that real income has declined)?

It couldn't be that the recent economic policies have penalized the lowest income households to the benefit of the upper income households, right?

maybe they have.

[reeds]

"It couldn't be that the recent economic policies have penalized the lowest income households to the benefit of the upper income households, right?

maybe they have. "

EXACTALLY...its the republican way..they never have given a rip about the working class poor..rather give massive tax breaks to the rich...but...DRBIO's reply is *yawn*...what a joke..and he calls you an idiot??OMG..he wrote the freaking book on it...

[Drbio]

It's ok reedsy...YOUR President...yes YOUR President...George W. Bush...go ahead and refer to him lovingly as dubya...YOUR President likes that......anyways...YOUR President will make it all better for you in spite of your drivel. It's ok...come in off the ledge.

[chumdawg]

Hell, I thought "working class" people who made less than 10K/year didn't even pay income taxes.

[dude1394]

Golly gee.. The poeverty level is 12.7% must be those eeeeevvvvviiiiiillllll republicans and that massive TAX CUT FOR THE RICH which made the tax rates even more progressive.

Except even now it's the same or lower than it was in 6 out of 8 years of the bee-yoo-ti-ful, all-caring democrat administration. For people and families it's lower than it was for 6 of 8 years of the utopian bubba administration. Even during what the media say was the GREATEST ECONOMY IN HISTORY bubba didn't do a dang thing for the poor!! How can this be??

census

year..........total...............number..%....... .fam.total......number....%
2004...... 290,605 36,997 12.7 241,153 26,564 11.0
2003...... 287,699 35,861 12.5 238,903 25,684 10.8
2002...... 285,317 34,570 12.1 236,921 24,534 10.4
2001...... 281,475 32,907 11.7 233,911 23,215 9.9
2000 12/.. 278,944 31,581 11.3 231,909 22,347 9.6
1999 11/.. 276,208 32,791 11.9 230,789 23,830 10.3
1998...... 271,059 34,476 12.7 227,229 25,370 11.2
1997...... 268,480 35,574 13.3 225,369 26,217 11.6
1996...... 266,218 36,529 13.7 223,955 27,376 12.2
1995...... 263,733 36,425 13.8 222,792 27,501 12.3
1994...... 261,616 38,059 14.5 221,430 28,985 13.1
1993 10/.. 259,278 39,265 15.1 219,489 29,927 13.6
1992 9/... 256,549 38,014 14.8 217,936 28,961 13.3
1991 8/... 251,192 35,708 14.2 212,723 27,143 12.8
1990...... 248,644 33,585 13.5 210,967 25,232 12.0

[dude1394]

Here's another factoid for ya'. Must be those eeeevvvviiiilll republicans and their eeevvvviilllll no child left behind. Evil, evil..so evil.

The high school class of 2005 earned the highest-ever marks on the math portion of the SAT, a modest change that continues the steady 25-year trend of improvement on the country's most popular standardized college entrance exam.

Significant gaps between racial groups remain, however, and officials said they are troubled by the comparative lack of progress in scores on the test's verbal section.

Last year's seniors averaged 520 out of a possible 800 on the math portion, 2 points higher than the class of 2004. Average scores on the verbal section were unchanged at 508, according to results released Tuesday by the College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT.

[Drbio]

Let's not facts clutter up this whinefest of a thread please.

[Mavdog]

Originally posted by: dude1394
Golly gee.. The poeverty level is 12.7% must be those eeeeevvvvviiiiiillllll republicans and that massive TAX CUT FOR THE RICH which made the tax rates even more progressive.

Except even now it's the same or lower than it was in 6 out of 8 years of the bee-yoo-ti-ful, all-caring democrat administration. For people and families it's lower than it was for 6 of 8 years of the utopian bubba administration. Even during what the media say was the GREATEST ECONOMY IN HISTORY bubba didn't do a dang thing for the poor!! How can this be??

census

year..........total...............number..%....... .fam.total......number....%
2004...... 290,605 36,997 12.7 241,153 26,564 11.0
2003...... 287,699 35,861 12.5 238,903 25,684 10.8
2002...... 285,317 34,570 12.1 236,921 24,534 10.4
2001...... 281,475 32,907 11.7 233,911 23,215 9.9
2000 12/.. 278,944 31,581 11.3 231,909 22,347 9.6
1999 11/.. 276,208 32,791 11.9 230,789 23,830 10.3
1998...... 271,059 34,476 12.7 227,229 25,370 11.2
1997...... 268,480 35,574 13.3 225,369 26,217 11.6
1996...... 266,218 36,529 13.7 223,955 27,376 12.2
1995...... 263,733 36,425 13.8 222,792 27,501 12.3
1994...... 261,616 38,059 14.5 221,430 28,985 13.1
1993 10/.. 259,278 39,265 15.1 219,489 29,927 13.6
1992 9/... 256,549 38,014 14.8 217,936 28,961 13.3
1991 8/... 251,192 35,708 14.2 212,723 27,143 12.8
1990...... 248,644 33,585 13.5 210,967 25,232 12.0

uh, dude, the figures you provided show the number of households living in poverty<u> decreasing </u>from the mid 90's until the trend reversed itself and began to <u>increase</u> in the early 2000's (which coincidently coincides with the arrival of Bush in the White House...)

[Mavdog]

Originally posted by: dude1394
Here's another factoid for ya'. Must be those eeeevvvviiiilll republicans and their eeevvvviilllll no child left behind. Evil, evil..so evil.

guess you missed this story...and the huge disparity in non-anglo student's performance.
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Texas students fall further behind on SAT
Class of 2005 improves in math but still trails U.S. averages overall


10:25 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005

By TERRENCE STUTZ / The Dallas Morning News


AUSTIN – Texas students have slipped further below the national average on the SAT over the last decade as they missed solid performance gains – especially in math skills – registered by college-bound students across the U.S.

A report released Tuesday by the College Board indicated that the class of 2005 in Texas rebounded slightly in math on the SAT, but not enough to make up ground lost over the last several years on the college entrance exam.

The average math score in Texas was 502 – a three-point increase over last year – while the average verbal score remained unchanged at 493, the same figure recorded in five of the last six years.

Nationally, students averaged 520 in math skills – up two points from last year – and 508 in verbal skills for the second year in a row. A perfect score on each section is 800.

A new writing section debuted on this year's SAT, but high school seniors were exempt. The national average for juniors taking the new writing test was 516 out of a possible 800 points. State scores were not available Tuesday.

Beginning next year, results in math, verbal and writing skills will be reported for high school seniors in all states, with scores ranging up to 2,400 instead of the long-standing perfect score of 1,600 on the SAT.

State Education Commissioner Shirley Neeley on Tuesday highlighted the improvement by Texas students on the math section of the SAT this year.

"We're pleased to see SAT scores rising for our Texas public school students, even as the number of test takers increased by nearly 4 percent," Dr. Neeley said. "We continue, however, to see a significant achievement gap between groups of Texas students."

Minority students continued a long trend of lower scores on the college entrance exam in Texas and the U.S. In Texas, black students averaged 427 in math and 426 in verbal skills, while Hispanics averaged 458 in math and 447 in verbal skills. Those numbers significantly trailed scores for white students: 534 in math and 527 in verbal skills.

Since 1995, average SAT scores in Texas have gone up one point in math and dropped two points in verbal skills. By contrast, the national averages have risen 14 points in math and four points in verbal skills.

College Board President Gaston Caperton said this year's math scores are the highest on record and continue an upward trend that began in the early 1990s.

But, the former West Virginia governor added, "The relatively flat trend in verbal scores indicates what we have observed for years – the need to redouble efforts to emphasize the core literacy skills of reading and writing in all courses across the curriculum starting in the earliest grades."

College Board officials noted that the math gains came on the heels of an increased number of students taking more demanding courses such as pre-calculus, calculus and physics.

Besides the new writing section – which features an essay and multiple-choice questions – the new SAT also includes shorter reading passages and questions derived from third-year, college-prep math. Analogies and quantitative comparisons were eliminated from the exam this year.

Nearly 1.5 million high school seniors took the SAT, including 133,115 public and private high school students in Texas. That was about 54 percent of the class of 2005 in Texas.

In California, where about 50 percent of seniors took the SAT, the average scores – 522 in math and 504 in verbal skills – were well above those in Texas.


COMPARING TEXAS AND THE NATION
While Texas SAT scores have held steady over the past 10 years, the nation has recorded steady progress. A perfect score on each section is 800.
YEAR TEXAS MATH TEXAS VERBAL U.S. MATH U.S. VERBAL
1995 501 495 506 504
1996 500 495 508 505
1997 501 494 511 505
1998 501 494 512 505
1999 499 494 511 505
2000 500 493 514 505
2001 499 493 514 506
2002 500 491 516 504
2003 500 493 519 507
2004 499 493 518 508
2005 502 493 520 508
SOURCE: The College Board

[FishForLunch]

Income distribution is an idea the dems can try, or create a welfare state like France and Britain. Hillary can can always try this as long as she says it is for the children.

[reeds]

"uh, dude, the figures you provided show the number of households living in poverty decreasing from the mid 90's until the trend reversed itself and began to increase in the early 2000's (which coincidently coincides with the arrival of Bush in the White House...)"

HAHAHAH..priceless..DUDE cant even read his own graphs!!! that is a classic.. DUDE- great great POST... HINT- look at the % in poverty since you president was in charge..its going UP UP UP..when Clinton was around it was going DOWN DOWN DOWN..but Bush couldnt keep that going..he turned it around, to the dark side..what a surprise..