Census: Kansans’ real income drops while poverty rises

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This should bode well as the RW Teabagger Governor Brownback continues to slash support, and as his no income tax no corporate tax programs start to kick in funding for schools will be slashed. And this is supposed to make people flock to Kansas for employment, and corporations lining up to move to Kansas.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/12/3811914/census-kansans-real-income-drops.html

New numbers released by the Census Bureau on Wednesday show that Kansans’ real household income continues to drop and more state residents are living in poverty than any time in the past three decades.

The numbers show that while median income has risen slowly in actual dollars, in inflation-adjusted dollars, Kansas has fallen to its lowest point since the tail end of the recession in 1995.

Kansas median household income is now about $4,000 less than the national average – a change from 10 years ago when state and the nation were almost even.

The Census Bureau plans to release more detailed numbers next week, but the figures released Wednesday give a first look at where the state is and where it’s been since the 1980s.

The income numbers cover a period from 1984 to 2011.

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1. They will just blame Obama for it even though congress controls the money. Oh yeah and congress is

controlled by republicons.