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27 March 2014

MYTH BUSTERS TAKE ON POVERTY: 10 Poverty Myths, Busted & What If Everything You Knew About Poverty Was Wrong? MAR/APR2014

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"If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless."
-Adrienne Rich
 

$2.00 A DAY, people in the U.S. are actually struggling to survive on $2.00 a day. I can't imagine what their lives must be like, and am ashamed our nation leaves these people to suffer in such extreme poverty. We have the ability to eliminate American poverty, but the war on the poor prevents us from taking action. third way democrats, the majority of the gop, tea-baggers and libertarians all mouth concern about American poverty and then participate in the propaganda campaign of misinformation, lies and deception funded by the rich, corporate America, the bank-financial cabal and the military-industrial complex that directs them to stop any political action that would address American poverty by requiring them to pay their fair share of the social contract that has existed in our Republic since it's founding. I am ashamed of our national tolerance of the suffering of the poor. These from Mother Jones.....

No, single moms aren't the problem. And neither are absentee dads.

1. Single moms are the problem. Only 9 percent of low-income, urban moms have been single throughout their child's first five years. Thirty-five percent were married to, or in a relationship with, the child's father for that entire time.*
2. Absent dads are the problem. Sixty percent of low-income dads see at least one of their children daily. Another 16 percent see their children weekly.*
3. Black dads are the problem. Among men who don't live with their children, black fathers are more likely than white or Hispanic dads to have a daily presence in their kids' lives.
4. Poor people are lazy. In 2004, there was at least one adult with a job in 60 percent of families on food stamps that had both kids and a nondisabled, working-age adult.
5. If you're not officially poor, you're doing okay. The federal poverty line for a family of two parents and two children in 2012 was $23,283. Basic needs cost at least twice that in 615 of America's cities and regions.
6. Go to college, get out of poverty. In 2012, about 1.1 million people who made less than $25,000 a year, worked full time, and were heads of household had a bachelor's degree.**
7. We're winning the war on poverty. The number of households with children living on less than $2 a day per person has grown 160 percent since 1996, to 1.65 million families in 2011.
8. The days of old ladies eating cat food are over. The share of elderly single women living in extreme poverty jumped 31 percent from 2011 to 2012.
9. The homeless are drunk street people. One in 45 kids in the United States experiences homelessness each year. In New York City alone, 22,000 children are homeless.
10. Handouts are bankrupting us. In 2012, total welfare funding was 0.47 percent of the federal budget.
*Source: Analysis by Dr. Laura Tach at Cornell University.
**Source: Census
 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/10-poverty-myths-busted

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood 

 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/03/kathryn-edin-poverty-research-fatherhood?page=2

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