Not sure why you keep saying poverty is increasing. It was 22% in '59 and it's 13.2% now. I used percentages because you don't like real numbers :) (40mil vs 40mil)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States As for race when you break it down it's no longer 3 to 1: Among married families: 5.8% lived in poverty[20]. This number varied by ethnicity with 5.4% of white persons,[21] 8.3% of black persons,[22] and 14.9% of Hispanic persons (of any nationality) [23] living in poverty. Among single parent families: 26.6% lived in poverty[20]. This number varied by ethnicity with 30% of white persons,[21] 40% of black persons,[22] and 30% of Hispanic persons (of any nationality) [23] living in poverty. Among unrelated individuals living alone: 19.1% lived in poverty[20]. This number varied by ethnicity with 18% of white persons [24] 27.9% of black persons [23] and 27% of Hispanic persons (of any nationality) [25] living in poverty On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > We've been losing the middle class for the last 30 years. This has and > will reinforce a culture of being poor. And when it comes to > increasing job losses, increasing gaps in wages, destabilization of > home values, etc., the middle class groups comprised of minorities are > more at risk than the white middle class because the black middle > class (or hispanic middle class, etc) is smaller and newer. > > The culture of poverty can be found anywhere. It certainly happens > amongst whites, I grew up in the middle of it. But I think that you > are deluding yourself if you don't think that there is a historic > component to it and that historic component, in the US, is largely > racial. We're losing the middle class steadily but we're losing the > middle class in minorities faster and sooner and that isn't a random > thing. > > Juda > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:323369 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
