In Honor of Astroboy, Did You Know?
*Mahogany Goddess of P.H.A.E.T
2012/09/13 16:53:10
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Did You Know An Estimated 16 Million of the US Citizens Living In Poverty Are Children?
http://www.everychildmatters.org/storage/documents/pdf/report...
http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/
http://www.nccp.org/media/releases/release_34.html
http://nccp.org/profiles/TX_profile_7.html
27% (606,604) of children, under age 6, live in poor families.
Definitions
- Child
- A child is defined as an individual under the age of 18. Children living independently, living with a spouse, living in group quarters, and children ages 14 and under living with only unrelated adults are excluded from these data.
- Low Income
- Families and children are defined as low-income if the family income is less than twice the federal poverty threshold (see Poor).
- Parent
- Among children who do not live with at least one parent, parental characteristics are those of the householder and/or the householder's spouse.
- Poor
- Families and children are defined as poor if family income is below the federal poverty threshold. The federal poverty level for a family of four with two children was $22,350 in 2011, $22,050 in 2010, and $22,050 in 2009.
The federal poverty guidelines are issued annually by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The demographic findings on this page were calculated using a more complex version of the federal poverty measure—the thresholds issued by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more information about federal poverty measures, see The 2010 HHS Poverty Guidelines.
http://www.everychildmatters.org/storage/documents/pdf/report...
http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/
http://www.nccp.org/media/releases/release_34.html
http://nccp.org/profiles/TX_profile_7.html
27% (606,604) of children, under age 6, live in poor families.
22% (954,832) of children, age 6 or older, live in poor families.
23% (1,293,438) of children in urban areas live in poor families.
28% (173,533) of children in rural areas live in poor families.
Top Opinion
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Xerxes,Phantom of PHAET 2012/09/13 16:54:48I Knew
+10Reason I think we need to care of our children first and put the rest of the world on the back burner
Some are so quick to spread the toxicity and vitriol...
nearly 50% is not paying any fed liabilities, the near same 49% are on some form of fed assistance programs.
We are almost Greece, we can't survive another 4 years of these madness!!!
I thought something tragic had happened to Astro-Boy when i read the title.
I dont actually know him but we have exchanged comments in the past so i was troubled.
Mean.
note: Damn, do I miss you Astro.....
Also: I miss AB
Help is already available, and NO, Ryans budget doesn't kill it, it DOES offer a traiing program to get OUT of it if you have the initiative to.
(Source: Kaiser Family Foundation, CBO)
Who would that impact? First, by overturning the ACA, the Ryan plan would prevent 11 million people from gaining Medicaid coverage by 2022, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimates.
That’s why the CBO believes that $750 billion in Medicaid cuts under the Ryan plan would “probably require states to reduce payments to providers, curtail eligibility for Medicaid, provide less extensive coverage to beneficiaries, or pay more themselves than would be the case under current law.”
If states maintained their current level of spending for each Medicaid patient, 19 million more people would have to be cut from the program in 2021 because of Ryan’s block-grant reform, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. If states managed to curb health-care spending growth in Medicaid, 14 million beneficiaries would still lose Medicaid coverage under the Ryan plan. And that’s on top of the 11 million Americans who would lose Medicaid coverage because the Ryan plan would repeal Obamacare. So all in all, Ryan’s cuts could mean as many as 30 million Medcaid beneficiaries lose their coverage.
My question is why is this in honor of Astroboy?
Sorry Tommy Coburn: Obama & the Banking Cartel Already Cut Education Welfare Assistance By $100 Billion, Already Cut Food Stamps Welfare By $2.2 Billion, & Health Care Welfare By +$6.6 Billion.
Instead, Costello lamented over possible cuts to government welfare programs: “It was 50 years ago that Sergeant Shriver led President Johnson’s war on poverty. Today his son, Mark, runs Save the Children in the U.S….[and] fears that programs like Head Start, which serve poor children, might face cuts in the next round of congressional budget cuts, just as more and more families find themselves struggling to put food on the table.”
While Costello fretted over “congressional budget cuts,” a not-so-veiled reference to Republicans, on Thursday’s Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams focused on how “A lot of African-Americans in this country are getting flat out crushed in this economy,” while the “DC debate is often admittedly about tax cuts for the wealthy.”
And remember:
Obama ...&&
Sorry Tommy Coburn: Obama & the Banking Cartel Already Cut Education Welfare Assistance By $100 Billion, Already Cut Food Stamps Welfare By $2.2 Billion, & Health Care Welfare By +$6.6 Billion.
Instead, Costello lamented over possible cuts to government welfare programs: “It was 50 years ago that Sergeant Shriver led President Johnson’s war on poverty. Today his son, Mark, runs Save the Children in the U.S….[and] fears that programs like Head Start, which serve poor children, might face cuts in the next round of congressional budget cuts, just as more and more families find themselves struggling to put food on the table.”
While Costello fretted over “congressional budget cuts,” a not-so-veiled reference to Republicans, on Thursday’s Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams focused on how “A lot of African-Americans in this country are getting flat out crushed in this economy,” while the “DC debate is often admittedly about tax cuts for the wealthy.”
And remember:
Obama Cuts Welfare, While His Economic Advisory Board Chairman Increases American Poverty: Jeff Immelt, CEO Of General Electric & Owner Of NBC Urges More Welfare Debt For America ~ While Receiving $Billions In Taxpayer Bailout Money From Obama & Then Moves American Jobs Out To Other Countries, While Obama Nullifies Tax Obligations For G.E.
Posted by Volubrjotr on September 16, 2011
But Obama has made it worse, harder and cut some vital services ALL the while blaming others.
Having parents that worked to better our lives helped a lot, too.
PARENTS need to step up and STOP being greedy little, self absorbed pissers.
He is.
The internet personality, for all intents and purposes on this website, is dead.
http://www.sodahead.com/livin...
You just never know.