The Daily Times published an article about recent poverty data from the US Census Bureau. I include an excerpt:
More than one in ten Americans, or 36.5 million people, live in poverty in the United States, with children and blacks the worst hit, an annual report by the US Census Bureau showed Tuesday.
According to the report, around 12.8 million children under the age of 18, or around one-third of the poor, existed in 2006 on incomes below the threshold used by the Census Bureau to determine who lives in poverty.
The number of children without health insurance swelled by 700,000 in 2006 compared with the previous year, according to the report, which also showed that the total number of Americans without health coverage had risen by three million to 47 million.
In percentage terms, three times more black people, 24.3 percent, lived in poverty than the 8.2 percent of white people who did, the report showed.
The U.S. Census Bureau releases a similar report every year about poverty with staggering statistics about the millions of Americans in poverty, including the racism involved. Yet, every year our we fail to do anything about it. Year after year we let poverty and racism continue. Passive indignation will not do anything to stop this. We need to take action to put an end to poverty!
Millions of children in the United States live in poverty, of which millions do not have enough food to eat. With children growing up in such horrible conditions, they do not get a fair chance to succeed, which will lead to most of them remaining in poverty. We need to stop the poverty cycle. We need to take action!
The world has more than enough food to feed everyone. We have more houses than homeless families. The fact that hunger, poverty, and homeless continue demonstrates a fatal flaw in the social structure of our society. We need to fix this, or we will not survive.