In 2014, (click here) the official poverty rate was 14.8 percent. There were 46.7 million people in poverty. Neither the poverty rate nor the number of people in poverty were statistically different from the 2013 estimates.
This is from "The Atlantic." I think of that publication as conservative. But, I have learned a great deal from reading it.
September 16, 2015
By Gillian B. White
On Wednesday, (click here) the Census Bureau released its latest data on income and poverty for the country, and despite a falling unemployment rate and a rising GDP—two promising macroeconomic signs—things haven’t improved all that much for American families in the past year....
The article has this graph that breaks down the poverty across time with stipulations of recessions and the four major ethnicities.
This graph is amazing to the honor of each President that played a vital role in the improvement of quality of life of African Americans primarily, but, also hispanic communities. The 1960s. The heritage of JFK. President John picked up where Kennedy left us. That is amazing.
The next major improvement of quality of life for our minorities, even Asians occurred in the 1990s. That was President Bill Clinton.
2008 and 2009 hit everyone with more consequences for Hispanics. But, even with that higher return of poverty to the Hispanics, African Americans still sustained a higher rate. The least effected were the Non-Hispanic Whites.
Discrimination is visual. It is just so obvious to me. But, regardless of how terrible things were in 2008-2009 it was still not a return to far higher numbers. President Obama's Recovery and Reconstruction Act did a lot for people. The rise of poverty leveled out, but, remained persistent. If President Obama didn't act as quickly as he did it would have been far, far worse.
...And though more women than ever are participating in the workforce, with 61 percent of women employed full time in 2014, their earnings remained about 79 percent of their male colleagues....
There is a mention of SPM in a graph in the article. The SPM is a new measure of poverty that works in conjunction with the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and the US Census. SPM is Supplemental Poverty Measure (click here). This is the graph:
The SPM has the official statistics skewed to equality, while the alternate statistics regards the young people more heavily effected. The SPM seems correct because there are more children under the age of 18 in poverty than adults. Many of the families in poverty are single parents with children.
Workfare that exists today is only effective when there are jobs to fill. If there aren't jobs that entire welfare paradigm has to be suspended. And we know there are many working poor receiving food stamps and Medicaid.
This is what happens when companies outsource jobs or more their jobs to Mexico. The USA loses it's base line work for High School grades or those without a High School diploma. It is unskilled labor.
We are not doing this right. We just aren't.
This is from "The Atlantic." I think of that publication as conservative. But, I have learned a great deal from reading it.
By Gillian B. White
On Wednesday, (click here) the Census Bureau released its latest data on income and poverty for the country, and despite a falling unemployment rate and a rising GDP—two promising macroeconomic signs—things haven’t improved all that much for American families in the past year....
This graph is amazing to the honor of each President that played a vital role in the improvement of quality of life of African Americans primarily, but, also hispanic communities. The 1960s. The heritage of JFK. President John picked up where Kennedy left us. That is amazing.
The next major improvement of quality of life for our minorities, even Asians occurred in the 1990s. That was President Bill Clinton.
2008 and 2009 hit everyone with more consequences for Hispanics. But, even with that higher return of poverty to the Hispanics, African Americans still sustained a higher rate. The least effected were the Non-Hispanic Whites.
Discrimination is visual. It is just so obvious to me. But, regardless of how terrible things were in 2008-2009 it was still not a return to far higher numbers. President Obama's Recovery and Reconstruction Act did a lot for people. The rise of poverty leveled out, but, remained persistent. If President Obama didn't act as quickly as he did it would have been far, far worse.
...And though more women than ever are participating in the workforce, with 61 percent of women employed full time in 2014, their earnings remained about 79 percent of their male colleagues....
There is a mention of SPM in a graph in the article. The SPM is a new measure of poverty that works in conjunction with the BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) and the US Census. SPM is Supplemental Poverty Measure (click here). This is the graph:
The SPM has the official statistics skewed to equality, while the alternate statistics regards the young people more heavily effected. The SPM seems correct because there are more children under the age of 18 in poverty than adults. Many of the families in poverty are single parents with children. Workfare that exists today is only effective when there are jobs to fill. If there aren't jobs that entire welfare paradigm has to be suspended. And we know there are many working poor receiving food stamps and Medicaid.
This is what happens when companies outsource jobs or more their jobs to Mexico. The USA loses it's base line work for High School grades or those without a High School diploma. It is unskilled labor.
We are not doing this right. We just aren't.
