Poverty in 21st Century America: Making Ends Meet

Peter Edelman from the Center for American Progress Poverty Task Force says it's shocking the number of Americans who struggle to make ends meet in today's United States.

Read the Center for American Progress's new report on poverty, FROM POVERTY TO PROSPERITY here:
http://www.americanprogress.org/projects/poverty/

What if our most powerful weapons were ideas?
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[Obobbakonda]

America and the world is being ravaged by greed.

[meno506]

one way to fight it is STOP CREATING IT !!!!!!!!!

[proatmetazine30906]

@adawilkes1 1.What do you think the plan has been for education since day 1?

2.Community college is affordable and worth the investment

3.Let them donate it to their liking instead

4.Again WTF have the past million social programs failed at doing.

The only way to a better America is by working with and educating every citizen, government for the people by the people.

[proatmetazine30906]

@adawilkes1 Well enlighten us to the golden bridge to end poverty!Anybody explain a real plan to eliminate poverty.You can only make everybody poor(equal).Thats the only way you can eliminate one man having more than the next.Go on, I am listening.

[proatmetazine30906]

Poverty is the distance between incomes.As long as you have rich, you have poor.This is better for the country because everyone is accountable for their own wellbeing(capitalism).

If you only have one class nobody has a reference point for comparison, the citizens slack off in their inefficient paradise ignorant bliss.(communism Russia, china before 2000, Venezuela ).

[proatmetazine30906]

@adawilkes1 Yea, in a perfect world.There has always been poor people though, I dont think there going away soon.(They are never going away idiot).

[wolftreetree]

This country as a whole is not wealthy.

[lumeriam]

I am waiting two months to see a "nurse practitioner" Mr Obama so should I go to the hospital emergency? It seems you want us to go to the emergency room or DIE. Oh, and I have chronic cough and I don't smoke so maybe it's your CHEM-TRAILS sprayed upon us Mr President!?

[ColdBoi]

Pretty much china and japan own the majority of america.

[ColdBoi]

Everytime the federal reserve prints a bill to loan to the us government there is interest attached to that. We've been in slavery to them since we went off the gold standard in 1933. The gold standard pretty much controlled how much money could be printed since each bill printed at the time could actually be traded in for real gold. Now The united states currently owes $ 751.5 billion china $798.9 uk around 249.3 billion and other countries the rest of its national debit in borrowed interest.