New Orleans You can’t put lipstick on this pig. There is no way to spin the Census Bureau numbers as anything but tragic or keep the phrases “lost decade” or “lost generation” out of the story of the avalanche income slide that is burying families in poverty in this Great Recession. The coming argument over …
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Poverty Rate Soaring in US & Canada
Toronto Erik Eckholm summarized the Census Bureau’s report in a clear but painful way: “With the country in its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, four million additional Americans found themselves in poverty in 2009, with the total reaching 44 million, or one in seven residents. Millions more were surviving only because of expanded …
US Census Backlash Hurts Cities
Monteverde Admittedly in the 24-hour news cycle the memory lasts about the same length of time, but it wasn’t that long ago that we got to read about the cave-in of the U. S. Census Bureau to the partisan assault on their partnerships, including ACORN and more recently SEIU. This is all rich since it’s …