Poverty in 21st Century America: We Can End Poverty

[Frederiknshansen]

I am a young danish student - I recently travelled across America and I found your country and its people to be warm and welcoming - be it north or south, eastcoast or westcoast - and I cannot see why this people, this country, so broadly ignores how powerty destroys society. This is not a difficult theoretical discussion on how society should be - this is a moral choice. I can not see how the misery of others can ever be defended - even if it improves my life. All human life is of equal worth.

[anyname666]

So when you CUT POVERTY IN HALF by the year 2017 will the poverty line be redrawn at the bottom 7% instead of the current 14%?????

It will never happen the democrats want people to think they are poor because their kids do not have play station 3 and no iPhones.

lose some weight and get back to me. Go stand infront of a lumbar yard and get a day job. Sell you TV so that you do not stay home all day watching it.

get busy and take care of yourself

[granddad2002]

@anyname666 Hi. Poverty is a paradox America. This nation is one of the few that has private land ownership. Yet, there has been a constrained attempt to 'liberalize' the mortgage market... sub-prime lending and non-collateral equity was a government program that wrecked the economy. We have sent jobs overseas to keep companies running on cheap labor. We 'preserve' our environment so we buy all that foreign oil and raw mining materials to keep spoilage reduced. Poor Americans get shit on 1st.

[carpenterale]

Keep up the good work, CAP.