Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Bush's Legacy: More Poor People Than Ever Before
More bad news on Bush's watch:
For the fourth straight year, poverty has increased under the Bush Administration, according to this AP article:
The mention of Clinton, under whose leadership poverty declined, takes me back to the good old days when a Democrat was running the economy instead of running it into the ground.
For the fourth straight year, poverty has increased under the Bush Administration, according to this AP article:
"The Census Bureau said household income remained flat, and that the number of people without health insurance edged up by about 800,000 to 45.8 million people.
Overall, the nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year. Of the 37 million living below the poverty level, close to a third were children.
The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, during the Clinton administration, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold. Since then, the number of people in poverty has increased steadily from 32.9 million in 2001, when the economy slipped into recession, to 35.8 million in 2003.
The mention of Clinton, under whose leadership poverty declined, takes me back to the good old days when a Democrat was running the economy instead of running it into the ground.
