What Bush took away: Poverty Rate Lowest in 20 Yrs Clinton years

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Under Clinton administration:

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2000/cb00-158.html

Poverty Rate Lowest in 20 Years, Household Income
at Record High, Census Bureau Reports

The nation's poverty rate dropped from 12.7 percent in 1998 to 11.8
percent in 1999 the lowest rate since 1979 and real median household
income reached $40,816, the highest level ever recorded by the Census
Bureau (household income data were first recorded in 1967), according to two reports released today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.

"Every racial and ethnic group experienced a drop in both the number of poor and the percent in poverty, as did children, the elderly and people ages 25 to 44," said Daniel Weinberg, chief of the Census Bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division. "Declines in poverty were concentrated in metropolitan areas, particularly central cities. And, on the income side, this was the fifth consecutive year that households experienced a real annual increase in income."

Poverty

According to the poverty report, 2.2 million fewer people were poor in 1999 than in 1998 32.3 million versus 34.5 million. In addition, the percentage of people 65 and over who were living in poverty reached a measured low of 9.7 percent in 1999 and the proportion of the nation's children in poverty was the lowest since 1979 16.9 percent.

The percentage and number of poor declined in the Northeast and West and remained unchanged in the South and the Midwest. The poverty rate in the South did not change significantly from the 1998 measured low for that region.

Except for Whites, the 1999 poverty rates for the nation's major racial and ethnic groups set or equaled historic lows. The rate for African Americans, 23.6 percent, was the lowest ever measured by the Census Bureau, and about 700,000 fewer African Americans were poor in 1999 (8.4 million) than in 1998 (9.1 million).

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Now under the stolen Bush Regime :

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2002/cb02-124.html

Poverty Rate Rises, Household Income Declines,
Census Bureau Reports

After falling for four straight years, the nation's poverty rate rose from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001. Median household income declined 2.2 percent in real terms from its 2000 level to $42,228 in 2001,according to reports released today by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau.

"Like the last year-to-year increase in poverty in 1991-1992 and the
last decrease in real household income in 1990-1991, these changes
coincided with a recession," said Daniel Weinberg, chief of the Census
Bureau's Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division.

The poverty rate and the number of poor increased among several
population groups between 2000 and 2001, including all families,
married-couple families, unrelated individuals, non-Hispanic Whites,
people 18-to-64 years old and the native population.

"The real median earnings of women age 15 and older who worked full
time, year-round increased for the fifth consecutive year, rising to
$29,215 -- a 3.5 percent increase between 2000 and 2001," said Weinberg. Men with similar work experience did not experience a statistical change in earnings ($38,275). As a result, the female-to-male earnings ratio reached an all-time high of 0.76. The previous high was 0.74, first recorded in 1996.

The reports, Poverty in the United States: 2001 and Money Income in
the United States: 2001, are available on the Internet. The data were
gathered in the 2002 Annual Demographic Supplement to the Current
Population Survey. In addition, the reports discuss experimental measures of income and poverty that account for noncash benefits (such as food stamps) and taxes (such as the Earned Income Credit) in income.

Poverty

According to the poverty report, about 1.3 million more people were poor in 2001 than in 2000 -- 32.9 million versus 31.6 million. The number of poor families increased from 6.4 million in 2000 (or 8.7 percent of all families, a record low rate) to 6.8 million (or 9.2 percent) in 2001.

For non-Hispanic Whites, the poverty rate rose from 7.4 percent in 2000 to 7.8 percent in 2001. But poverty remained at historic lows for African Americans (22.7 percent), Hispanics (21.4 percent) and Asians and Pacific Islanders (10.2 percent). Among these groups, only non-Hispanic Whites (up 905,000 to 15.3 million) and Hispanics (up 250,000 to 8.0 million) saw an increase in the number of poor.

The three-year-average (1999-2001) poverty rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives was 24.5 percent, with an estimated 800,000 living in poverty. American Indians and Alaska Natives were the only group to show a decline in their poverty rate when the two-year 2000-2001 average was compared with the two-year 1999-2000 average. (The average was used because the American Indian and Alaska Native population is relatively small and multiyear averages provide more reliable estimates.)

The poverty rate for the population age 18 to 64 rose from 9.6 percent in 2000 to 10.1 percent in 2001. Children under 18 continued to have a higher poverty rate (16.3 percent) than people 18 to 64 or 65 and over; it was unchanged from 2000.

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[Noordam]

1. As if Bush could care

and the sheep still will vote for him.

[opihimoimoi]

2. The Have's do not really care.

they got

everyone else, they forgot.

[acerbic]

3. Lies, lies, LIES!!!!

Everyone knows that Klinton is a fiscal conservative which means that he made poor people poorer which means that he is a fiscal conservative. That proves undeniably that he made made poor people poorer which proves that he is a fiscal conservative. Don't try to hide that undeniable TRUTH with those "statistics" and other lies!

Oops, channeling the Kucinists for a moment... :-)

[chiburb]

4. Why are we so afraid to say it?

CLASS WARFARE.