Third World America: Census Reports 46.2 Million Americans are Living in Poverty
The land of opportunity isn’t what it used to be, at least that’s the takeaway from a new Census report entitled Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in 
the United States: 2011 :
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2011, median household income declined, the poverty rate was not statistically different from the previous year and the percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased.
Real median household income in the United States in 2011 was $50,054, a 1.5 percent decline from the 2010 median and the second consecutive annual drop.
The nation’s official poverty rate in 2011 was 15.0 percent, with 46.2 million people in poverty. After three consecutive years of increases, neither the poverty rate nor the number of people in poverty were statistically different from the 2010 estimates.
The number of people without health insurance coverage declined from 50.0 million in 2010 to 48.6 million in 2011, as did the percentage without coverage – from 16.3 percent in 2010 to 15.7 percent in 2011.
Also in 2011, the median earnings for women who worked full time was $37,118, and $48,202 for men. Once you account for inflation, that’s not much of an improvement in wages over the past twenty years. Also, it demonstrates that women working full time are only earning 77% of what men who work full time earn.
Of course, the poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites was lower in 2011 than it was for other racial groups.
The report breaks down the data for racial groups, s*x, and even various regions. You can read the report in its entirety here.
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It should also be noted that 50k a year doesn’t get you far while living in major city like NYC compared to a small town in SC. Especially when you live in a housing development where the little raises one might get the more their rent goes up which in turn takes away from saving from buying a house.
The FACT is that the vast majority of these people are NOT living in poverty. We officially define “poverty” in this nation as having a low income. A man and wife with $1,000,000 in the bank but no current source of income (job, investments, etc.) would be considered living in poverty.
Now, for those who aren’t millionaires and have a low income, they still don’t live in poverty. Yes, they are defined as being in poverty, but they actually aren’t. Here’s why: Our government, by way of theft from citizens who actually work, gives piles and piles of free stuff to people who don’t work. Free food (stamps), free housing, free healthcare, free bus passes, free cell phones, spending money (SSI), utility assistance, free college for the kids, yadda yadda. The FACT of the matter is that most people who are living in so-called poverty are living as good as their next-door neighbor who is making $40,000 a year. $40,000 a year isn’t rich by any means, but it isn’t poverty either.
Now, some places in the world, poverty is really poverty. Poor people don’t have enough to eat, they live in a shack w/o running water, and their kids don’t even get to go to 3rd grade, let alone college. If someone gets sick, he dies; there is only one hospital 60 miles down the road, and no ambulance or taxi to take them there unless they pay in advance (which they can’t do). There is no spending money; there is no money at all.
When will the lazy-a*s bums of this nation stop their whining. Absolutely NOBODY in the United States of America lives in true, abject poverty. I actually wish the fat people with their EBT cards did live in abject poverty. Perhaps then they would get off their fat a***s and start working. Perhaps if the bums were actually starving, a job at McDonalds or Walmart would be something they would be thrilled about, instead of something that they would choose not to do in favor of getting a free ride through life on the backs of the American taxpayer.
Yes, I have a bad attitude. I also have the right attitude. Of those 46.2 million people in so-called poverty, the vast majority of them are there for no other reason they their own choice to be there. You argue, “But what about the children (of the bums who won’t work)?” And I say, arrest their lowlife perents (both mom and dad) for child abuse, and put the kids in orphanages that will at least provide property for the kids (the parents have already proven they don’t love their kids, so don’t give me that c**p about how an orphanage can’t provide love).
Wake up America.
In that last paragraph, replace “property” with “properly.” Even taxpayers make typos . . . .
The only thought of your entire post worth agreeing with is that you most certainly have a bad attitude. The entirety of your post is made up of a bunch of thoughts that speak to your character which in turn doesn’t make you worth the time and trouble it would take to rebuttle much of it. Instead I’ll simply say “ditto” to everything Hollywood said in reply to your insensitive, ignorant post. However, be very careful of the thoughts lingering in your heart. Today you may be critical of those accepting public assistance. Tomorrow you could very well be a member of that group you criticize. Stranger things have happened.
ME112233 are you saying that those on welfare like and enjoy the life they are living? That its so good that they would have it no other way? Are you looking from the outside or have you lived that life? I seriously doubt it’s that good cause if it was then everybody would quit their jobs and do it. And nobody in the 1% would trade places with someone on welfare. We can get into very vast situations why one can’t find or obtain a job to get off welfare but this is about poverty. But let me address what seems like a tone from ME112233 that people on welfare are splurging and living the life from taxpayer money. Before you criticize people who you feel aren’t living in poverty you should really be raising wholly h**l over the bank bail outs that just happen. Those people that you and I and all the taxpayers in america helped
with our money,billions of tax dollars are the real welfare people.
THANKS FOR SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT HOLLYWOOD!!!’
I’m Glad I left Same ole Blue-Eye Enemies they were 6,000 years ago This is the same thing Hitler Did to the Blacks Jipsys & Jews he put them in Ghettos when they didn’t die fast Enough He Sterilized the Ignorant Black Dummy Germans The Real Black Germans Bounced B4 he could get them! It’s always have been some Big Dumb Negroes believing everything coming out a Crackers Mouth! Gone & Die you too Dumb to be in this World! We are the Victims of Greedy Crackers & Wall Street Crackers the Real Terrorists!!! Anybody who go against these Crackers He They are Terrorists BS! Stop Being a Potatoe Head n***a! Wake up & get some sense in ya Head! Look to get out of America because it’s only gonna get Worst! America has always been a Habitation of Devils! & a cage for every foul Spirit ! Fagitry BullDaggers thieves sucka4love types I’m the type who is a Brother who goes places & does things so a Women want to be on my team I finally Married & left America 4ever tired of all the Racism & BS,I only need to get my Two Sons out & I will be good sometimes change is good! Black people get yourself a Passport! You Lawbreaking Nigs later 4 ya I can’t help
And where is this paradise that you speak of Mr. Ishmar?
Wow, your statements are truly unbelievable and some of you show no compassion for your fellowman or women. You are lead to believe that poverty represents welfare and food stamps. It is a shame when goverments receives or gives out welfare to the Major Corporations and Million Dollar Politicians that legislates the laws we live by.
It is a d**n shame that with all of the wealth that this countries produces every day and across the world that their are people who live in shack’s, no running water or bathrooms in the boxes they currently are living in. If a new Iphone comes out, you run to the store to buy a new one, no questions ask, but when childern are going to bed hungry at night because they can’t afford food, then where is the h**l are you.???
The USA is becoming a Third World Country and your worried about food stamps and taxes. WOW.
Nobody, but nobody, wants to be on a limited income.
be care me112233,
Judge not, yet ye be judged.