Reply #9: There are more families below the "official" poverty level today [View All]

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then in 1996, when they reformed this program. They are patting themselves on the back for a poverty assistance program that resulted in more poor families. I hope they don't decide to "fix" anymore of these programs that are suppose to help poor families. I don't think America can take it.

The percent of people below the "official" poverty level was dropping since 1993 until... can you guess what year? You win, up until the year 2000, the percent of people and families below the official poverty level was dropping. In 2000, it started to rise again. Not until we got an all repuke legislative and executive government did we see a rise in the percent of people below the poverty level. We haven't seen this large a percent of people below the official poverty rate since 1998, when they enacted the reforms. That is based on 2004 numbers (the most recent statistics at the US Census Bureau). You can bet your bottom dollar that the 2006 numbers have shown no improvement.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov2.html

What are they going to congratulate themselves for next? Stopping global warming? Improving the cost of health care?