“[Tuesday’s] Census report shows that in 2010, the share of all Americans and the share of children living in poverty, the number and share of people living in ‘deep poverty,’ and the number without health insurance all reached their highest level in many years — in some cases, in several decades — while median household income fell significantly after adjusting for inflation. The data also show that many of these grim figures and the level of hardship would have been much worse if not for key federal programs such as unemployment insurance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, food stamps, and Medicaid.”
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Tea Party solution to these problems, of course, is to abolish the Census Bureau.
Sad statistics. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, it’s a shame.
Loved your snipe at the Tea Party, though.