Reply #9: Wikipedia.org info & chart re: Bush and Poverty in US

[Whoa_Nelly]

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While the GDP recovered from the recession early in Bush's term, poverty has since worsened under Bush according to the Census Bureau. The juxtaposition of increasing GDP and increasing poverty might be explained as a concentration of wealth in fewer hands. The percent of the population below the poverty level increased in each of Bush's first four years, while it decreased for each of the prior seven years to a 26-year low. At 12.7% in 2004, it is still lower than at any time during the Reagan and Bush I administrations.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush