Child poverty rate from Bernie's FB site ...

[slipslidingaway]

he continues to hammer the point that we have the highest childhood poverty while billionaires gain significant financial ground.

One look at the chart is disgusting

Chart is from UNICEF

https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders

[PowerToThePeople]

1. chart.

[slipslidingaway]

3. "No country which is great turns its back on it children!" Thank you!

Tonight's rally being streamed here, the crowd is fired up!

[orpupilofnature57]

2. He makes the atrocities of inequality tangible, NO other canidate is adressing these issues, NONE !!

What does child poverty have to do with appeasing the 1% ??

[slipslidingaway]

9. Yes, it would take hardly anything from the billionaire class to raise children just a bit ...

above the poverty level

[oasis]

4. Pres. Obama should get the ball rolling right away.

[slipslidingaway]

12. Yes he should!!! Or we could spend billions creating enemies overseas :( n/t

[beam me up scottie]

5. He mentioned that last night, how shameful it is that children are going hungry in this country.

It's unconscionable.

[slipslidingaway]

13. Many of the people he is addressing are feeling the squeeze from the millionare class ...

there is no excuse!!! I agree with Sanders.

[beam me up scottie]

15. Everyone should be outraged by this.

The GOP wants the middle class to hate the poor but Bernie knows who really benefits from business as usual.

And who suffers the most.

[BainsBane]

6. Politifact calls that false

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/08/bernie-s/sanders-child-poverty-higher-america-any-other-maj/

According to that report, Sanders’ statement would be true; however, a later UNICEF report from 2014 with more recent OECD data put the U.S. rate of childhood poverty lower than that of Israel, Mexico, Spain, and Greece, as well as that of non-OECD Latvia. (Romania was not included.)

The OECD also released its own report on childhood poverty in 2014, using data from 2010. According to that, the United States has less childhood poverty than Chile, Mexico, Turkey, Israel — all of which are OECD members — and Romania.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Not really:

Different surveys, but America always near the top

Jeff Frank, Sanders’ press secretary, clarified that when the senator said "major country," he meant a member nation of the OECD, an international economic group composed of 34 generally wealthy countries. (OECD stands for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.)

Frank also said that Sanders was referring to a 2012 UNICEF report on childhood poverty in which the United States ranked 34th out of 35 countries with a childhood poverty rate of 23.1 percent, besting only non-OECD member Romania. The report primarily uses data from 2009.

Only a HC supporter would have a problem with Bernie addressing the issue of child poverty in this country.

[Doctor_J]

10. Indeed

Only a HC supporter would have a problem with Bernie addressing the issue of child poverty in this country

Or try to misdirect from the fact that our situation is disgusting

They are grotesque

[beam me up scottie]

11. The proper response from a liberal would be "Yes, absolutely. We need to address this!"

Not "He's wrong and I can prove it !!1!"

[slipslidingaway]

17. Exactly!!! Several years ago my husband was working on a project for the ...

department of education in a certain southern state, their claim to fame was 'at least we are not #50, we're #47, or 48.

It is all good and something to be applauded.

[beam me up scottie]

18. USA! USA! USA!

Being at the top of this list isn't something to brag about.

[slipslidingaway]

20. Or being a few steps from the bottom is also not something to brag about ...

[beam me up scottie]

21. Near the top in wealth and near the bottom when it comes to providing for the poor.

Something wrong with that picture and anyone who points that out should be commended.

And Bernie didn't just start doing it because he's running for the nomination.

[slipslidingaway]

24. Commended yes, but hardly any corporate media coverage, too many sensitive issues I suppose...

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if people cannot see the injustice, I think they are loosing their eyesight!

Bernie cannot try and hide behind his long record and just make campaign promises like others have done.

[slipslidingaway]

16. Bottom line is we still have a high rate of childhood poverty compared to many other nations ...

definitions and numbers change, but the income distribution needs to be better allocated in our country.

Do you agree?

[BainsBane]

22. Yes, I do

But I also think facts matter.

[slipslidingaway]

26. Facts do matter, even more so when one is voting to give a President powers ...

to invade another country.

Small variances in facts, and judgment, can make a big difference!!!

I would think that possibly overestimating childhood poverty in comparison to getting the facts wrong when going to war and killing thousands of children and leaving millions of orphans do not compare ... in my opinion.

Some facts are more important than others, we all choose which facts take precedence.

[cali]

29. lol. that is some high test irony.

[Sunlei]

7. It is shamefull. The USA can't even get their shit together for a free school lunch for ALL kids.

[beam me up scottie]

14. Good point.

Children should not be going hungry at school.

Or anywhere else but school would be an easy place to start with free breakfast and lunch for all.

[slipslidingaway]

19. A free lunch for ALL kids would be great, we need some radical changes in how we spend ...

our money in this country, what our priorities are and how that affects our future.

Shameful how we allocate dollars and who those dollars benefit.

[BainsBane]

23. 1 percenters should get free lunch?

10 percenters? 20 percenters? How about people who actually need it? Why should people in the bottom 50 percent subsidize the lunches of children from the upper 50%?

[cyberswede]

27. No more so than the bottom 50% subsidize public school for children of the upper 50%.

[punguin54]

25. I love my country, but I hate the ultra rich buying it from under our feet. Enough said...

If that makes me a communist/socialist well fine.

[slipslidingaway]

28. Things have to change, that is why Sanders resonates with so many people ...

but do not look now ... Biden might be running.

Sanders is too socialist for the people