Let the Good Times Roll: 1 Million More Americans in Poverty in 2004

[Ted Striker]

In 2004, 37.0 million people were in poverty, up 1.1 million from 2003.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty04/pov04hi.html

This is following the stellar year of 2003 when that happened and another million more had no health insurance. Which also followed 3 years of poverty growth.

The number of Americans in poverty rose by 1.3 million to 35.9 million, or one in eight people. The number of Americans without health insurance rose by 1.4 million to 45 million, or 15.6% of the population. Both sets of figures rose for the third-straight year.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-26-census-poverty_x.htm

[Verto]

People who are in poverty are there because of a choice they made to not work.

[Sava]

And plus Ted, poor people in America are much better off than poor people in the rest of the world. They have color TV's, microwaves, cable, cars, and are living ghetto fabulous.

DUH...

haven't you ever seen pimp my ride?

[Ted Striker]

[:) Smiley]

Lack of material wealth != poverty.

There are other issues caused by inequality, including low status and lack of respect from the rest of the population.

[pchang]

Asians rule. All the rest drool.

[SlowwHand]

Once again, idiocy reigns at ACS Off Topic.
Be proud.

[Fake Boris]

Don't worry, thanks to Katrina the non-insured population has diminished.

[Mr. Harley]

Just saw an interesting claim that most if not all of that growth has been in non-hispanic whites. As in "we" are becoming "them".

[Spiffor]

The number of Americans without health insurance rose by 1.4 million to 45 million, or 15.6% of the population.

[Az]

Reminds me of episode 1 of "30 days".

[Velociryx]

Poverty

Natural Disasters that eliminate the suffering of "those people"

Threads with satirical/sarcastic titles that poke fun at DanS' perpetually rosy outlook on the state of the economy

Neocons, and what they've done with the country in the last several years

Ted Striker

-=Vel=-
(well, thumbs up for two of those five anyways.....and it prolly don't take a rocket scientist to figure out which two!)

[molly bloom]

Poor people are bad because they're poor or poor because they're bad; either that or God needs people to support Walmart and Pat Robertson's t.v. shows.

As for your common beggar, ‘tis usually an injury and a dishonour unto the country, for them to be countenanced; as for they that indulge themselves in idleness, the express command of God unto us, is that you should let them starve.

Good news from the Puritans.

[VetLegion]

What happens when a person without health insurance has a traffic accident and needs expensive surgery to survive?

[Theben]

That would be covered by auto insurance-medical, which you have to have in order to drive (well, you need liability anyways. If you don't have insurance and the accident is your fault, and you only have liability, you're basically screwed).