MEXICO INVADES, LOOTS OUR JOBS, “FREE” EMERGENCY
ROOM MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE, AND ENDLESS
DREAM ACTS HANDED TO THEM BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY ALONG WITH PROMISES OF AMNESTY,
LA RAZA SUPREMACY= SANCTUARY CITY/STATES, LIKE MEXIFORNIA, OR CONTINUED
NON-ENFORCEMENT.
THE ILLEGALS HAVE ELECTED A SIGNIFICANT FACTION OF
LA RAZA SUPREMACIST TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE WHICH HAS PASSED A LAW MAKING IT
ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!!!
THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES WITH A POPULATION
GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHERE HALF OF ALL JOBS ARE HELD BY ILLEGALS
USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! THIS SAME COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION
PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS! Not one legal voted to be mexico’s welfare
state!
THE
MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION DEPRESSED WAGES FOR LEGALS FROM $300 TO $400
BILLION PER YEAR! THAT’S WHY OBAMA AND HIS LA RAZA DEMS ARE DETERMINED TO
SABOTAGE E-VERIFY! KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED KEEPS THEIR CORPORATE PAYMASTERS
HAPPY AND GENEROUS!
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Map: The 12
States of America
Since 1980,
income inequality has fractured the nation. Click each icon to see each
of the dozen states, which counties belong to them and how median income has
changed over the last 30 years.
The 12
States Of America
Since
1980, income inequality has fractured the nation.
Most stories about inequality in America
miss an important point: rising disparities are not just about investment
bankers versus auto workers. They’re about entire communities of “winners” and
“losers.” And as these communities continue to diverge, the idea of “an
American economy” looks more and more like an anachronism.
Also
see:
Interactive Map: "Income Inequality"
See how your county compares to the rest of the country.
Interactive Map: "Income Inequality"
See how your county compares to the rest of the country.
We
analyzed reams of demographic, economic, cultural, and political data to break
the nation’s 3,141 counties into 12 statistically distinct “types of place.”
When we look at family income over the past 30 years through that prism, the
full picture of the income divide becomes clearer—and much starker.
Seven
of our 12 county-types saw their median family incomes fall. “Immigration Nation” counties fared the
worst, as Latino immigrants, many with little education, moved in.
The “Service Worker Centers” also saw steep declines, as manufacturing dried
up. Leading in growth were the well-educated “Monied Burbs,” where white-collar
positions bloomed in office parks. Income in the “Industrial Metropolises” also
rose, driven by gentrification and new wealth in inner-ring suburbs.
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!
"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."
Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal
CA MAKES
E-VERIFY ILLEGAL! COURTESY THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA!
Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal
Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California...
You have 2 families..."Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.
"Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted...."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has "NO" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".
Joe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year
Now take 30% away for state and federal tax
Joe Legal now has $31,231.00
Jose Illegal...$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year
Jose Illegal pays no taxes...
Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00
Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage
$1000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now has $19,231.00
Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00
Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare
Joe Legal pays for food
$1,000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00
Joe Legal pays rent of
$1,000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal is now in the hole... minus (-) $4,769.00
Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy
Jose Illegal pays rent
$500.00 per month
$6,000.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $25,200.00
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.
Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.
Don't vote/support any politician that supports illegal aliens...
Its WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
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OBAMA
HAS PROMISED HIS LA RAZA “THE RACE” PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO
E-VERIFY, NO I.D. FOR REQUIRED OF ILLEGALS VOTING… OR AT LEAST CONTINUED
NON-ENFORCEMENT!
OBAMA
HANDS MASSIVE WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, ALONG WITH OUR JOBS TO BUY THE ILLEGALS'
ILLEGAL VOTES!
The
truth about the DREAM Act
Published
March 20, 2012
|
FoxNews.com
The
DREAM Act has become a rallying cry for President Obama, members of his
administration, and liberal Democrats everywhere. President Obama has vowed to
“keep fighting for the DREAM Act,” which would grant amnesty to millions of
illegal immigrants.
It’s
true when listeners or those polled don’t know the facts that the DREAM Act has
some appeal. After all, we are all naturally sympathetic when children are
involved.
But
the descriptions of the DREAM Act voiced by President Obama and his cohorts are
not accurate. And the consequences are never told.
DREAM
Act supporters claim that only children would benefit from such a bill, but the
facts tell another story. Under most DREAM Act proposals, amnesty would be
given to individuals up to the age of 30—not exactly children. And some other
proposals don’t even have an age limit.
These
supporters also maintain that illegal immigrants can’t go college without the
DREAM Act. But the truth is that illegal immigrants can already go to college
in most states.
And
ultimately, most versions of the DREAM Act actually don’t even force illegal
immigrants to comply with all the requirements in the bill, such as going to
college or joining the military. The administration can waive requirements
because of “hardship”at its complete discretion.
DREAM Act proposals are
also a magnet for fraud. Many illegal immigrants will fraudulently claim they
came here as children or that they are under 30. And the federal government has
no way to check whether their claims are true or not.
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Unfettered Immigration =POVERTY FOR
AMERICANS
By Robert Rector Heritage.org | May
16, 2006
This paper focuses on the net
fiscal effects of immigration with particular emphasis on the fiscal effects of
low skill immigration. The fiscal effects of immigration are only one aspect of
the impact of immigration. Immigration also has social, political, and economic
effects. In particular, the economic effects of immigration have been heavily
researched with differing results. These economic effects lie beyond the scope
of this paper. Overall, immigration is a net fiscal positive to the
government’s budget in the long run: the taxes immigrants pay exceed the costs
of the services they receive. However, the fiscal impact of immigrants varies
strongly according to immigrants’ education level. College-educated immigrants
are likely to be strong contributors to the government’s finances, with their
taxes exceeding the government’s costs. By contrast, immigrants with low
education levels are likely to be a fiscal drain on other taxpayers. This is
important because half of all adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have less
than a high school education. In addition, recent immigrants have high levels
of out-of-wedlock childbearing, which increases welfare costs and poverty. An
immigration plan proposed by Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Chuck Hagel
(R-NE) would provide amnesty to 9 to 10 million illegal immigrants and put them
on a path to citizenship. Once these individuals become citizens, the net
additional cost to the federal government of benefits for these individuals
will be around $16 billion per year. Further, once an illegal immigrant becomes
a citizen, he has the right to bring his parents to live in the U.S. The
parents, in turn, may become citizens. The long-term cost of government
benefits to the parents of 10 million recipients of amnesty could be $30
billion per year or more. In the long run, the Hagel/Martinez bill, if enacted,
would be the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years. Immigration
and Crime Historically, immigrant populations have had lower crime rates than
native-born populations. For example, in 1991, the overall crime and
incarceration rate for non-citizens was slightly lower than for citizens.[40]
On the other hand, the crime rate among Hispanics in the U.S. is high.
Age-specific incarceration rates (prisoners per 100,000 residents in the same
age group in the general population) among Hispanics in federal and state
prisons are two to two-and-a-half times higher than among non-Hispanic
whites.[41] Relatively little of this difference appears to be due to
immigration violations.[42] Illegal immigrants are overwhelmingly Hispanic. It
is possible that, over time, Hispanic immigrants and their children may
assimilate the higher crime rates that characterize the low-income Hispanic population
in the U.S. as a whole.[43] If this were to occur, then policies that would
give illegal immigrants permanent residence through amnesty, as well as
policies which would permit a continuing influx of hundreds of thousands of
illegal immigrants each year, would increase crime in the long term. The Fiscal
Impact of Immigration One important question is the fiscal impact of
immigration (both legal and illegal). Policymakers must ensure that the
interaction of welfare and immigration policy does not expand the
welfare-dependent population, which would hinder rather than help immigrants
and impose large costs on American society. On the other hand, amnesty would
greatly increase the receipt of welfare, government benefits, and social
services. Because illegal immigrant households tend to be low-skill and
low-wage, the cost to government could be considerable. The Center for
Immigration Studies (CIS) has performed a thorough study of the federal fiscal
impacts of amnesty.[59] This study found that illegal immigrant households have
low education levels and low wages and currently pay little in taxes. Illegal
immigrant households also receive lower levels of federal government benefits.
Nonetheless, the study also found that, on average, illegal immigrant families
received more in federal benefits than they paid in taxes.[60] Granting amnesty
would render illegal immigrants eligible for federal benefit programs. The CIS
study estimated the additional taxes that would be paid and the additional
government costs that would occur as a result of amnesty. It assumed that
welfare utilization and tax payment among current illegal immigrants would rise
to equal the levels among legally-admitted immigrants of similar national,
educational, and demographic backgrounds. If all illegal immigrants were
granted amnesty, federal tax payments would increase by some $3,000 per
household, but federal benefits and social services would increase by $8,000
per household. Total federal welfare benefits would reach around $9,500 per household,
or $35 billion per year total. The study estimates that the net cost to the
federal government of granting amnesty to some 3.8 million illegal alien
households would be around $5,000 per household, for a total federal fiscal
cost of $19 billion per year.[61] Granting Amnesty is Likely to Further
Increase Illegal Immigration The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of
1986 granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens. The primary purpose of the
act was to decrease the number of illegal immigrants by limiting their inflow
and by legalizing the status of illegal immigrants already here.[63] In fact,
the act did nothing to stem the tide of illegal entry. The number of illegal
aliens entering the country increased five fold from around 140,000 per year in
the 1980s to 700,000 per year today. Illegal entries increased dramatically
shortly after IRCA went into effect. It seems plausible that the prospect of
future amnesty and citizenship served as a magnet to draw even more illegal
immigrants into the country. After all, if the nation granted amnesty once why
wouldn’t it do so again? The Hagel/Martinez legislation would repeat IRCA on a
much larger scale. This time, nine to ten million illegal immigrants would be
granted amnesty. As with IRCA, the bill promises to reduce future illegal entry
but contains little policy that would actually accomplish this. The granting of
amnesty to 10 million illegal immigrants is likely to serve as a magnet pulling
even greater numbers of aliens into the country in the future. If enacted, the
legislation would spur further increases in the future flow of low-skill
migrants. This in turn would increase poverty in America, enlarge the welfare
state, and increase social and political tensions. Is your elected special
interests pimp getting rich off elected office? CALIFORNIA’S SURE ARE!
MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
Since the 1986 “amnesty” give
away, there have been yearly 1.5 million illegals walk over our borders waving
their Mexican flags, and slipping right into our jobs, welfare lines and
hospital emergency rooms to give birth.
Meanwhile every year there are 1.5
million Americans that fall into poverty.
Daily there are 12 Americans
murdered by illegals. In California alone there have been 2,000 Americans
murdered by illegals that fled back to Mexico.
Foreclosure is the highest in
states with the heaviest Mexican occupation. The highest foreclosure rate in
this country is in La Raza Harry Reid’s Nevada where 25% of the population are
ILLEGALS.
In Mexican occupied Los Angeles,
47% of those employed are illegals. L.A. county pays out $50 MILLION PER MONTH
in welfare to illegals.
And yet hispandering Barack Obama
and his banksters’ LA RAZA DEMS are at this very moment working for bit by bit
amnesty.
In fact hispandering OBAMA just
took 400 border patrol guards off the border with NarcoMex. Pelosi, Feinstein
and Boxer have all vowed quick amnesty, NO WALL, no e-verify, and NO ID for illegals to vote dem!
Who pays?
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One in nine Americans uses food
stamps
By Tom Eley
20 August 2009
20 August 2009
One
in nine Americans relied on food stamps in May, the highest proportion ever,
according to recently released data from the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA). In all, 34.4 million people used the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), a federal program that provides assistance to low-income
people, an increase of more than 2 percent from the previous month, and a
staggering increase of 6 million over the past year.
May’s
increase was the sixth consecutive month that set a new record in food stamp
use. Government food assistance increased in every state, with Florida
registering the sharpest gain at 4.2 percent.
The
year-over-year percentage increase in food stamp use is more striking, with 13
states, representing every region of the country, registering a spike of more
than 25 percent. These were Utah (45.5 percent), Nevada (39 percent), Idaho
(36.3 percent), Washington (34.5 percent), Florida (34.2 percent), Vermont
(33.6 percent), Wisconsin (31.3 percent), Arizona (29.7 percent), Colorado (28.9
percent), Georgia (28.3 percent), Maryland (27.2 percent), Massachusetts (25.3
percent), and Oregon (25 percent).
“Food
stamp enrollment is rising because the economy is having a devastating impact
on low-income families and they need this program to eat,” said Stacy Dean of
the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said. “Every single state has been
affected.”
The
food stamp program is largely funded by the federal government and administered
by the states. Historically, recipients could redeem stamps or coupons for food
assistance at grocery stores, but in recent years paper stamps have been phased
out in favor of a debit card system called Electronic Benefit Transfer.
The
program aims to assist the desperately poor. According to the USDA, the average
gross monthly income of food stamp-receiving households was $640, with nearly
80 percent of all benefits going to households with children.
The
program provides an average of $133 monthly per person requesting food
assistance. By way of comparison, according to the USDA’s own estimates, a
“low-cost” monthly nutritional scheme for a single teenage boy requires a
minimum of $220 spending on food per month.
Federal
food assistance for the poor was a Great Society measure created during the the
Lyndon Johnson administration (1963-1969). Since the late 1970s, it has
weathered round after round of cuts at the hands of both Democratic and
Republican administrations and congresses, who claimed to be creating a
“culture of responsibility” among the poor.
The
most savage of these cuts came in 1996, through Bill Clinton’s “Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act,” which eliminated
eligibility for legal immigrants (these restrictions have since been only
slightly relaxed), limited stamp use for “able bodied” adults without
dependents to three months during a 36-month period, and substantially reduced
maximum food benefits.
The
result is a food stamp program that, even in more favorable economic
conditions, fails to meet basic nutritional needs and shuts out the vast
majority of the working class from any assistance whatsoever. The economic
crisis has laid bare the woefully inadequate character of the program and the
“social safety net” as a whole.
In
Texas, demand is such that in July the state was delinquent in processing
nearly 40 percent of new requests. Rachel Cavazos, who has four children, is
jobless, and is in the midst of a divorce, applied for food stamps in April and
has not yet heard back on her request. “It’s very hurtful, especially when
somebody doesn’t give you the benefit of the doubt,” the 32-year-old Houston
native recently told the Houston and Texas News. “The help is not for
me. It’s for my babies. I don’t want my children to suffer.”
Recently
at a Dallas, Texas, food stamp office, a line of the desperate and hungry
formed before 5 a.m. “I got a four, a five and a 15-year-old. And right now I
got $2.27. So we’re going to have some Ramen noodles tonight,” Kenyadda Momanyi
told a local news station. A class action lawsuit has been filed against the
state of Texas to force it to process applications more swiftly.
Mickey
Warren, food directer of Christian Life Food Pantry in Knox County, Kentucky,
recently went before the local Chamber of Commerce in a desperate bid for
charitable contributions. “It’s toward the end of the month and people are
starting to look for more and more food, because by now the ones that draw food
stamps, they’re gone, the kids are hungry,” he said.
“Warren
recalled [recently watching] a small girl rip open a whole pound cake package
in the pantry parking lot, grasping it with both hands and eating it like a
candy bar, because she had been hungry,” the local TimesTribune.com
reported.
In
Wichita, Kansas, a grandmother summed up her plight in a word. “The most simple
word would be we’re hungry,” Kathi Boggs told a local news station, as she sat
with her 6-year-old grandson, Alex, at a soup kitchen. “At the end of the day
there’s not enough for food.”
“People
are desperate,” said Gary Madden, a charity worker who assists people in
gaining access to food stamps in San Bernardino County, California. “People
calling now are saying things like ‘I’ve never asked for help in my life. I
don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve lost my job and I’m about to lose my
home.’ More men are calling. Families are doubling up in homes.”
“Callers
are saying, ‘bank bailouts, auto company bailouts, where’s my bailout?’,”
Madden told BlackVoiceNews.com.
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from the March 30, 2006 edition – CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
MEXICO PREFERS TO EXPORT ITS POOR, NOT UPLIFT THEM
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Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them At this
week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.
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By George W. Grayson
WILLIAMSBURG, VA. - At the parleys
this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President
Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the
Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to
enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and
the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the
continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive
excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico
border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow
of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican
legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized
that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful
migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with
"understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric
would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort
to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To
his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly
the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers
have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of
the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad.
Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact
science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying
efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal
immigration at the border and the workplace. Insufficient revenues mean that
Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility:
Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10
percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. Transparency
International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with
Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for
corruption. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's
neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration.
However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions
necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses.
Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite
act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder
burdens Mexico should assume.
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY SPENDS 37
MILLION... ONE MONTH... WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS!
Welfare and food stamp benefits soar $3 million higher than
September payout. New statistics from the Department of Public Social Services
reveal that illegal aliens and their families in Los Angeles County collected
over $37 million in welfare and food stamp allocations in November 2007 – up $3
million dollars from September, announced Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael
D. Antonovich. Twenty five percent of the all welfare and food stamps benefits
is going directly to the children of illegal aliens. Illegals collected over
$20 million in welfare assistance for November 2007 and over $16 million in
monthly food stamp allocations for a projected annual cost of $444 million.
“This new information shows an alarming increase in the devastating impact
Illegal immigration continues to have on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said
Antonovich. “With $220 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare,
and $444 million in welfare allocations, the total cost for illegal immigrants
to County taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions
of dollars for education.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949085/posts
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40 MILLIONS AMERICANS LIVING IN
POVERTY WHILE 40 MILLION MEXICANS HAVE CLIMBED OUR BORDERS AND JOBS AND ARE
LOOTING US TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS YEARLY!
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE PUTS OUT
$600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS (source: JUDICIAL WATCH)!
US Census Bureau report: 40 million
living in poverty
By Kate Randall
30 September 2009
30 September 2009
The
overall poverty rate in the US rose to 13.2 percent in 2008, as workers across
all sectors of the economy became jobless and increasing numbers of families
were forced into destitution, according to a new government report. Real median
household income also declined by 3.6 percent.
The
report released Tuesday, part of the US Census Bureau’s American Community
Survey, is the most recent to measure the recession’s impact on working class
families and the poor. Based on the changes between 2007 and 2008, the first
full year of the recession, its findings do not reflect increases in poverty
and joblessness this year as the consequences of the crisis have become even
more acute.
The
official poverty rate of 13.2 percent in 2008 was up from 12.5 percent in 2007.
This figure translates into 39.8 million people in poverty across America. The
official poverty level is set at $22,000 annually for a family of four with two
children or $12,000 for an individual, an absurdly low threshold. This means
that far more people than indicated by the survey do not have adequate
resources to pay for food, shelter, medical care and other basic necessities.
The
poverty rate rose across virtually all demographic groups. Poverty among
Hispanics climbed from 21.5 percent in 2007 to 23.2 percent in 2008.
Non-Hispanic whites saw poverty rise from 8.2 percent in 2007 to 8.6 percent in
2008, while poverty among Asians was up from 10.2 percent in 2007 to 11.8
percent in 2008. African-Americans were the only group where poverty remained
statistically unchanged at a staggering 24.7 percent, or about one in four
people.
The
Census Bureau reported a rise in poverty in 31 states and the District of
Columbia. Two of the four most populous states—California and Florida—saw
poverty rates rise by 1 percent, to just over 13 percent in each state.
Connecticut
saw the largest increase in poverty, rising to 9.3 percent, with an additional
1.4 percent of the state’s population living in poverty. Connecticut’s
proximity to Wall Street, the center of the financial collapse, contributed to
the state’s poverty as spending cuts by bankers and other financial employees
in the New York City suburbs were reflected in declines in income for the
lowest paid workers.
William
Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, commented in an interview,
“People don’t go from being a CEO or a hedge fund manager into poverty, but
there is a trickle-down effect when these groups of people start to cut back on
their spending. In many places, the first people to go when things get tight
are the lowest-earning workers.”
Michigan,
which has been devastated by the collapse of the auto industry, is the only
state that has seen poverty increase for two years in a row, with the rate now
standing at 13 percent. The industrial states of Pennsylvania and Indiana also
saw significant increases in poverty, along with Oregon and Hawaii.
The
South remained the most impoverished, at 14.3 percent, up slightly from 14.2
percent in 2007. Mississippi, with 21.2 percent in poverty, saw the highest
rate of any state, while poverty in Kentucky, West Virginia and Arkansas
hovered around 17 percent.
The
Midwest poverty rate rose to 12.4 percent from 11.1 percent the previous year.
The West saw the largest increase in poverty, up by 1.5 percent, rising from 12
percent in 2007 to 13.5 percent. The Northeast, which saw an increase in
poverty in 2007, saw the rate remain statistically unchanged, at 11.6 percent
in 2008.
The
rate of poverty among America’s children is alarming, with 19 percent—14.1
million children—affected in 2008, up a full percentage point from a year
earlier. This rate increased in 26 states and in Washington, DC. Children in
families headed by a single female suffered the highest rates of poverty: 43.5
percent of those under 18 years of age live in poverty, while 53.3 percent of
children under 6 years are poor.
Increasing
numbers of families, both the jobless and workers facing shrinking hours and
paychecks, are turning to food pantries and the Food Stamp program. Food Stamp
use in 2008 jumped 13 percent to nearly 9.8 million US households, led by
Louisiana, Maine and Kentucky. Two cities—Pharr, Texas, and the former General
Motors production center, Flint, Michigan—each had more than a third of their
residents on food stamps. Families with two or more workers accounted for 28.4
percent of food stamp recipients in 2008, up 1.5 percent from 2007.
Following
three years of annual income increases, real median income declined in the US
by 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, falling from $52,163 to $50,303. The
Midwest and South saw the biggest declines in median income, 4 percent and 4.9
percent respectively.
The
gap between the richest and poorest Americans is also widening as the economic
crisis ravages household budgets. An Associated Press analysis of the Census
Bureau statistics shows that the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, those
making $138,000 or more a year, earned 11.4 times the $12,000 made by individuals
living below the poverty line in 2008. In 2007, the richest 10 percent made
11.2 times more.
The
jump in poverty and income inequality comes as the job market continues to
shrink, even as government and economic analysts speak of a turnaround. According
to US Labor Department figures from July, job seekers now outnumber openings
six to one, with only 2.4 million full-time, permanent jobs open while 14.5
million people are officially unemployed and looking for work.
Many
companies remain cautious about hiring new workers in the uncertain economic
environment. Having trimmed back workers’ hours and laid off temporary workers,
even if businesses do expand in the future they are likely to increase output
by increasing the workload on existing employees.
Heidi
Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told the New York
Times, “They have tons of room to increase work without hiring a single
person. For people who are out of work, we do not see signs of light at the end
of the tunnel.”
From
December 2007 through July 2009, job openings have declined in every area of
the country: 45 percent in the West and South, 36 percent in the Midwest, and
23 percent in the Northeast. According to the Times, since the end of
2008 virtually every sector of the economy has been hit by the collapse in job
openings, which have shrunk 47 percent in manufacturing, 37 percent in
construction, 22 percent in retail, and 21 percent in education and health
services.
While
it is estimated that the government could spend in excess of $23 trillion to
bail out the banks, and hundreds of billions to pursue its military conquests
in Iraq and Afghanistan, nothing of any substance is being done to help the
millions of Americans being plunged into joblessness and poverty.
The
National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group, estimates that 400,000
Americans nationwide could exhaust their unemployment benefits by the end of
September and 1.4 million long-term unemployed could stop receiving checks by
the end of the year.
In
some states, such as California, where the unemployment rate hit 12.2 percent
in July—the highest level since 1940—workers laid off early in the recession
have received three extensions on the regular 26 weeks of benefits, bringing
them to a maximum of 79 weeks of payments.
The
US House recently passed a $1.4 billion bill to provide another 13 weeks of
jobless benefits in high unemployment states like California. The legislation
still faces a vote in the Senate. The extension in benefits, however, would not
cover many of the newly unemployed, or those yet to lose their jobs.
In
California, for instance, hundreds of thousands who filed claims after June 14
of this year would be eligible for no more than 39 weeks of benefits. A House
bill that would have provided longer extensions through 2010 was scrapped
because it would have cost $70 billion, a price tag the lawmakers were
unwilling to authorize.
ILLEGAL ALIEN POPULATION MAY BE AS
HIGH AS 38 MILLION!
Study: Illegal alien population may
be as high as 38 million A new report finds the Homeland Security Department
"grossly underestimates" the number of illegal aliens living in the
U.S. Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Studies released a report August
31 that estimates the number of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. is between
8 and 12 million. But the group Californians for Population Stabilization, or
CAPS, has unveiled a report estimating the illegal population is actually
between 20 and 38 million. Four experts, all of whom contributed to the study prepared
by CAPS, discussed their findings at a news conference at the National Press
Club in Washington Wednesday. James Walsh, a former associate general counsel
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said he is "appalled"
that the Bush administration, lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and
every Democratic presidential candidate, with the exception of Joe Biden, have
no problem with sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. "Ladies and
gentlemen, the sanctuary cities and the people that support them are violating
the laws of the United States of America. They're violating 8 USC section 1324
and 1325, which is a felony -- [it's] a felony to aid, support, transport,
shield, harbor illegal aliens," Walsh stated. Walsh said his analysis
indicating there are 38 million illegal aliens in the U.S. was calculated using
the conservative estimate of three illegal immigrants entering the U.S. for
each one apprehended. According to Walsh, "In the United States,
immigration is in a state of anarchy -- not chaos, but anarchy." IT’S ALSO
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