Not a democratized Iraq or a United States free from want and fear, but this:
More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation.
Local authorities say the number of families seeking help has risen in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle and Washington.
“Everywhere I go, I hear there is an increase” in the need for housing aid, especially for families, says Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which coordinates federal programs. He says the main causes are job losses and foreclosures.
And this:
Only two of 30 nations, Mexico and Turkey, are ahead of the United States for income inequality and poverty rates, or the gap between rich and poor, according to a report released Tuesday.
The report was released by Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development of its 30 member-nations, most of which are developed countries.
In America, the average income of the richest 10 percent of people is $93,000. When compared to purchasing power parity, it is the highest in the OECD when compared with the average of $54,000 for OECD nations.
The poorest 10 percent of Americans have an income of $5,800 per year, compared to the OECD average of $7,000.
In addition, the richest 10 percent hold 71 percent of American’s net worth and 28 percent of total income, leaving 90 percent of the population to split the remaining 72 percent of the nation’s income.
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Social mobility is lower in countries such as Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States where there is a wide distribution of income and higher in Nordic countries where income is distributed more evenly, the OECD said in a statement on its website.
It’s enough to make a mother proud. Well, at least this Mother:
The next time someone tells you that Obama’s a socialist and wants to redistribute wealth, ask them if they enjoy being in company with Mexico and Turkey, or if maybe the U.S. should do better.
But of course, with Charlie Gibson telling the entire country that $200,000 is the average middle class income in the U.S., I guess it’s no wonder that all those “low information voters” at McCain and Palin rallies see themselves as victims of the guvment and those lazy blacks and Mexicans. They know someone must be holding them back from making that kind of income; it certainly couldn’t be a Republican president and Republican Congress, or their own laziness and sense of entitlement, could it?
George W. Bush was their perfect president: a flawless reflection of their own bugs, packaged as features.
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