One in five American children is growing up in poverty today.

[Scuba]

Republicans are protecting tax breaks for multi-billionaires.





Who votes for the Republicans? Self-haters?

[Quantess]

1. But some people blame that on the liberals.

They have been fed the theory that liberals have corroded the fabric of family values, allowed those uppity blacks to be a little too uppity, the tree huggers put too many restrictions on industry, etc, so therefore the middle class is disappearing.

Confused, misguided people vote republican.

[jwirr]

2. It would be interesting to see a chart showing the growth of poverty in the last 30 years - the

trickle down era. Then compare it with the lose of jobs in the USA. I suggest it but do not know how to do it.

[raccoon]

3. My guess is one reason is that there are so many single mothers. Not necessarily

of any particular ethnicity either.

I remember some news program like 20/20 doing a show about poverty in Indiana and the
reporter talked to a young woman who had one child when she was a h.s. junior, one the next year,
and one the year after that. Not surprisingly, she was poor.

I realize there are other reasons for child poverty, such as the country has lost many good-paying jobs
in the last few decades.