Just in case you decided you couldn't trust your own eyes its now official -- poverty is at levels not seen for decades.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/12/AR2010091203963.html
Between the mid sixties to the mid seventies President Johnson's war on poverty cut the rate in half (from 22% to 11%). We seem determined to reverse this success and go back to the good old days when poor folk suffered in silence is some out of the way ghetto or rural enclave.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/12/AR2010091203963.html
Between the mid sixties to the mid seventies President Johnson's war on poverty cut the rate in half (from 22% to 11%). We seem determined to reverse this success and go back to the good old days when poor folk suffered in silence is some out of the way ghetto or rural enclave.
