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In reply to the discussion: 80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment, survey finds [View all]"Poverty is no longer an issue of 'them', it's an issue of 'us'," says Mark Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis who calculated the numbers. "Only when poverty is thought of as a mainstream event, rather than a fringe experience that just affects blacks and Hispanics, can we really begin to build broader support for programs that lift people in need."
- The above is the sorriest-ass paragraph I've read so far today. I hope it's the last.
''If the system has no place for you, and youre forced to live on its fringes teetering between poverty and anarchy
you may be a redneck.'' - John McNamee, Kafka's Joke Book
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80 percent of U.S. adults face near-poverty, unemployment, survey finds [View all]
kpete
Mar 2014
OP
Yes, I think that is kind of how we got to where we are at. If more people had understood what the
jwirr
Mar 2014
#3
Why are we talking about anything else either here on DU, ior in the White House and Congress?
hedgehog
Mar 2014
#6
K&R. I see it all around me ... and I was, at one time, solidly "middle-class".
SaveOurDemocracy
Mar 2014
#8
I still believe that the biggest part of the problem is that the "haves" are out of touch
Dustlawyer
Mar 2014
#11
Hey, those tax havens are there for the poor to use as well as the rich.
Jackpine Radical
Mar 2014
#17
Reaganomics has succeeded as planned . 3rd world yes . Now the poor will put Rethuglicons back in .
geretogo
Mar 2014
#22