That so many of our political leaders tolerate so much misery amid so much plenty is one of the great scandals of our age.
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In the October 7, 2013 edition of The Nation, Sasha Abramsky writes:
The latest Census Bureau figures on poverty in America, combined with the data on inequality released a week earlier, confirm a shocking new reality. While a sliver of top earners are doing better than they ever have before, for tens of millions of Americans, insecurity—and, for a distressing number, destitution—is the new norm.
The current Population Survey data show that 15 percent of Americans, roughly 46.5 million people, live at or below the government-defined poverty line—which, as most who work with the hungry, the homeless, the uninsured, and the underpaid or unemployed know, is itself an inadequate measure of poverty. By more reasonable measures, poverty in this country is even more pervasive.
Republicans and Democrats, start introducing bills as part of an Ownership Act to broaden individual ownership of FUTURE wealth-creating, income-generating productive capital assets, and start seriously creating new owners, without taking anything away from those who already OWN America.
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http://www.thenation.com/article/176242/americas-shameful-poverty-stats#
