Obama did after all, have a penchant for
the sixties...
The ranks of
America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a
century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak
economy and fraying government safety net.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.
The
Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and
academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or
conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty
rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7
percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage
point increase would put poverty at the highest since 1965.
Don't be too hard on Barry, he has had
a lot on his plate lately.
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