You read it here :)

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg162045.html
According to the Census Bureau poverty numbers always increases after
a recession. I can't find the numbers now but I did post them here
before, I think
there was 10 million people entered the workforce over the last couple
of years while the people in poverty only went up by 1.1 million.
Manufacturing jobs, the entry-level blue-collar jobs, have been
declining since the 70's. I do see car manufacturing coming back
somewhat to ease the problem but not stop it.


On 11/4/05, Gruss Gott wrote:
> > Larry wrote:
> > Where do you get this idea that the poverty level has not changed
> > since 1996. Its risen by quite a lot, especially amoung single women
> > and children.
> >
>
> I've read in sources such as Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The
> Heritage Foundation, and The Economist, that the number of people
> living below the official poverty line in America has barely risen
> between 1996 and today while the population has grown by millions.
> This is why the poverty rate has dropped a full percentage point.
>
> I think what this shows is that the solution is not to change the
> market to fit the poor, but to change the poor to the market.
>
> Dana's "as long as we have it ..." argument is really just a hidden
> endorsement for changing the market rather than empowering the people.
>
>

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