A new Census Bureau report shows that as of 2010 77 million Americans live in a high poverty neighborhood (defined as an area where one in five residents are impoverished), or 25.7% of Americans. This represents a 42% increase over the 18.1% of Americans who lived in similar neighborhoods in 2000.
Far be it for me to politicize this issue, but it should be noted that republicans controlled the White House in the form of Bush the Lesser (think tax cuts for the wealthy, two unpaid for wars) for eight of those years....
You know what bothers me the most about this? It's enough to make me wonder if we're headed more and more to an out of sight, out of mind mentality to America's poor. Let's round them all up in the same neighborhood, and then stay the fuck out of those neighborhoods. No more poor folks!
The richest nation in the history of the world, my friends, the richest nation in the history of the world.
Peace,
emaycee
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