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Poverty among Michigan children greater in 2015 than during “Great Recession”
Poverty among Michigan children greater in 2015 than during “Great Recession”
By Debra Watson
1 May 2017
1 May 2017
A child in
Michigan is more likely to be in poverty now—the state had an official child
poverty rate of 22.2 percent rate in 2015—than at the end of the first full
year of the recession in 2008. The rate was high enough at that point, just
over 19 percent, with about one in five children officially living in poverty.
That rate has now increased to more than one in five children. Recent auto
layoffs in the state threaten to bring the percentage of children in poverty to
new highs.
The 2017 Kids Count report released
last week by the Michigan League for Public Policy reports these shocking
official numbers. But it also notes that the official federal poverty threshold
takes as its benchmark an income of just $24,339 for a family of four. This is
grossly inadequate for even basic necessities. The current official poverty
level is just 30 percent of the national median household income. In 1960 a
family was considered living in poverty if its annual income was below 50
percent of the nation’s median.
More than
480,000 Michigan children were living in poverty in 2015, up 26,000 in 2008.
The total population of the state dropped from 10 million in 2008 to 9.9
million people in 2014, a nearly 1 percent drop. But there was an even greater
drop, 7 percent, in children in the state between 2008 and 2014, down to 2.2
million residents aged 0-17. All told, there were more than 160,000 fewer
children living in the state in 2014 than half a decade earlier.
The number
of children living in families in severe economic distress is actually more
widespread than the official poverty numbers reveal. Almost a million Michigan
children, or 44 percent, lived in families below twice the poverty level, an
income of less than $4,006 a month. The parents in these families struggle
paycheck to paycheck, just one emergency away from falling into abject poverty.
Of these one
million, about a quarter million children are even worse off, living in
families at the lower end of the income scale. Denoted as in “extreme poverty,”
these families have incomes below one-half the official poverty rate, less than
$1,000 a month.
This extreme
poverty increased by 11 percent from 2008 to 2015, even as the percentage of
children receiving cash assistance dropped by a whopping 64 percent, a result
of increased enforcement of the Clinton-era work penalties imposed by Michigan
governors, both Democratic and Republican.
The increase
in those in extreme poverty was accompanied by a rise in the rate of children
confirmed as victims of abuse or neglect by more than 30 percent. Nearly 17 per
1,000 children were counted as abused or neglected. Over 80 percent of victims
in the child welfare system were there because of neglect, due to a failure to
provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or medical care, or when the child’s
health or welfare is at risk.
As the World Socialist Web Site has noted before, the
Kids Count data for child abuse and neglect correlates closely to child
poverty.
In 2015,
there were nearly 248,000 counts of Michigan children living in families
investigated for abuse or neglect, while the count was just over 176,000 in
2009. The highest rate of confirmed abuse was in rural Lake County, a
staggering 64 per 1,000 children, twice that of other high-reporting mostly
rural counties. Lake County is now the poorest county in Michigan, with a
median household income of about $26,000 among its 11,000-plus residents. The
majority of Lake County residents, about 85 percent, are white.
The report also presents profiles of specific areas of the state.
In the Detroit area, the number of children in families below the poverty level
dropped from 98,438 in 2008 to 96,268 in 2014. However, since the city’s
population fell by 14 percent over those same years, the poverty rate increased
substantially.
In 2008 in
Detroit a child had a one-in-two likelihood of living in poverty. By 2014 it
was almost three in five. The number of children school-aged children, 6-12,
living in Detroit dropped by 40 percent.
Eighty-five
percent of children in Detroit lived in high-poverty neighborhoods, compared to
17 percent statewide. Sixty percent are signed up for food stamps, 70 percent
get reduced price lunches and 98 percent of Detroit children rely on Medicaid
for health coverage. The rate of hospitalizations for asthma among children in
Detroit, 46 percent compared to 15 percent statewide, reflects the pervasive poverty
and unhealthy living conditions in the city.
According to
the MLHS report: “Poverty also touches every corner of the state. In 2015,
nearly 28 percent of children living in rural counties were in poverty compared
to almost 24 percent in midsize and 22 percent in urban counties. The child
poverty rate is higher in rural parts of the state; however, it increased at a
higher rate from 2008 to 2015 in urban counties.”
The report’s
statewide child well-being figures include the following:
·
Child poverty rates are
much higher among minority groups: Almost half—47 percent—of Michigan’s
African-American children and 30 percent of Hispanic children live in poverty.
·
Sixty-seven percent of
children aged 0-5 years have both parents in the workforce. Working a
full-time, minimum wage job leaves a parent with a family of three $1,657 below
poverty level each year.
·
On average, childcare
expenses represent 38 percent of minimum wage earnings.
·
Less than 2 percent of
children ages 0-12 receive childcare subsidies. The state eligibility level for
childcare assistance, a federal block-granted program, is among the lowest in
the nation.
Children
eligible for benefits under federal entitlement programs comprise close to half
the children in the state. Children in families under 130 percent of poverty
level with little assets are eligible for SNAP (food stamps) and make up 30
percent of children aged 0-5 years. The rate of school-age children eligible
for free or reduced price school lunches in the state is over 46 percent. Fifty
percent of the very youngest children received basic food under the federal WIC
(Women’s, Infants and Children) program.
At the same
time, while births to teens declined 30 percent, the overall rate of mothers
receiving inadequate pre-natal care is 31 percent.
The report
notes an increase in the percentage of students not proficient in third-grade
English Language Arts, from 50 to 54 percent over the previous year. This
crucial skill is a basic requirement for reading-based learning in future
school years.
The rates of
accidents and homicides declined between 2008 and 2014. Accident rates for
youth have been reduced by nearly 23 percent and youth homicide rates have
improved by almost 26 percent. Black homicide deaths among those 15-19 are
still high, 38.6 per 100,000.
A startling
finding reported this year is the increase in teen suicides. Youth suicides in
the state increased by 38 percent between 2008 and 2014. Suicide rates among
both white and African-American youth increased, by nearly 40 percent for
whites and 12 percent for African-Americans. The rate of white teens taking
their lives is now 11 per 100,000, almost twice that of black and Hispanic
youth.
Democratic
President Barack Obama was in office for all of the eight years covered by this
year’s Kids Count report. His program of multitrillion-dollar bailouts for the
banks and financial institutions paved the way for more demands from the rich.
Since the
financial crash of 2008, 95 percent of income gains nationally have gone to the
richest 1 percent of the population, while most of the population has not
recovered from the “Great Recession,” which officially ended in 2009. The
labor-force participation rate has hovered around 63 percent for years, far
below its 67-plus high in the 1990s.
Trump wants
a $54 billion decrease in “discretionary” spending on social programs to cover
a $54 billion increase in military spending. Money for low-income housing,
education, the environment and other vital areas of social life are to be
slashed. Colossal social damage will result as the US Congress takes aim at
entitlement programs that now are part of social supports that keep the most
distressed families afloat. These include Food Stamps, WIC, Medicare and
Medicaid and many federal education subsidies for low-income students in K-12
schools.
This assault
is hitting a state already suffering from intense social displacement. In 2009,
as a condition of the auto bailout, Obama cut the wages of Big Three new-hires
in half, and, as so-called higher-paid legacy workers are forced out, large
numbers of low-paid workers now labor in the plants. At the same time,
unemployment looms for many. GM cut about 2,000 jobs when it ended the third
shift at its Lordstown, Ohio, and Lansing, Michigan plants in January. GM cut
nearly 1,300 jobs from its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in March.
These job
cuts coincide with unprecedented social disruption in the state’s larger
cities. The ongoing water disaster in Flint—and housing crises and water
shutoffs in the state’s largest city, Detroit—have stretched into years of
acute social disaster for urban residents. In April a new round of water
shutoffs to poor residents in Detroit and Flint began, the latest result of the
bankruptcy of Detroit engineered by big business and the Democratic and Republican
parties in 2013-2014.
Mexico Assembles Team for All-Out Legal Assault on Border Wall: Mexico’s foreign secretary is planning an all-out legal assault on any future construction of a border wall by the U.S., to include filing suits in U.S. and international courts over possible environmental, human rights and international treaty violations.
California: The sick man of the United States…. A STATE UNDER MEX OCCUPATION!
More significant still, a former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal immigrants and the construction of a border wall.
“More significant still, a former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal immigrants and the construction of a border wall. “
More significant still, a former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal immigrants and the construction of a border wall.
OPEN BORDERS: The Democrat Party’s Weapon of Mass Destruction on the American Worker
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-la-raza-mexican-crime-tidal-wave.html
"Los Angeles saw all crime rise in 2015: violent crime up 19.9 percent, homicides up 10.2 percent, shooting victims up 12.6 percent, rapes up 8.6 percent, robberies up 12.3 percent, and aggravated assault up 27.5 percent," Landry said.”
By Arthur Schaper
Is it too late for America?
Plenty of money for ILLEGALS……AMERICA’S
OPEN BORDERS
HOMELESS ELDERLY in AMERICA UNDER
MEX OCCUPATION
A Nation dies young, poor, addicted
and homeless…. It’s the American dream as the rich get super rich!
According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number
of elderly persons who are homeless in the US will have doubled by 2050.
America’s Super-rich Live 15 Years Longer!
………….. America’s Bludgeoned Middle-Class Dies Young, Addicted and Poor!
WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE SYSTEM
.... A Glimpse...
$640,000 and breeding anchor babies like bunnies
MURDER, RAPE, LOOT and VOTE DEM FOR MORE!
EACH ILLEGAL WILL COST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE $640,000
and then they go breed anchor babies for more!
California: The sick man of the United States…. A STATE UNDER MEX OCCUPATION!
PUS-SPEWING XAVIER BECERRA…. Is what happens when illegals vote LA RAZA FASCISM.
“As one attorney general, Kamala Harris, steps down to replace Barbara Boxer, another attorney general is secreted out of the glands of selfsame power in the form of pus-spewing Xavier Becerra.”
It didn’t stop Becerra, a prominent Latino rights advocate who has served in Congress since 1993, from pushing for the dealer’s release at the request of his father, Horacio. The elder Vignali, a rich Los Angeles businessman, contributed thousands of dollars to Becerra’s various campaigns and a favor was in order.
IMMANENT COLLAPSE THE PENA-NIETO REGIME AND FALL TO THE LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS ON AMERICAN OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS.
More significant still, a former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal immigrants and the construction of a border wall.
“Mexico in a country whose four wealthiest billionaires control as much wealth as the bottom half of the population—the 65 million that live in poverty (which includes 13 million living in extreme poverty)—and where the top 10 percent as a whole accounts for 67 percent of Mexico’s national wealth.”
THE TRUMP WALL LIE! WAS IT THE FIRST BROKEN PROMISE?
"If true, it shows Trump being the ultimate cynic and not having the courage to state his true beliefs to the American public who elected him. That's always been my biggest problem with Trump: his lack of integrity and consistent belief system." ----- ED STRAKER
THE TRUMPER CIRCUS: SELLING US OUT
ON A WAVE OF BROKEN PROMISES!
ON A WAVE OF BROKEN PROMISES!
TRUMP BACK-PEDDLES ON LEGALS AND
KEEPS OBAMA’S ILLEGAL AMNESTY
OPERATING…. It’s all about keeping
wages DEPRESSED!
KEEPS OBAMA’S ILLEGAL AMNESTY
OPERATING…. It’s all about keeping
wages DEPRESSED!
TRUMP FOLDS TO LA RAZA MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT
Says the “WALL” will now be only “NO TRESSPASSING” signs posted every hundred miles!
“He's showing more empathy for illegal aliens than he is for American citizens. Shouldn't it be the concerns of Americans he should be considering first, before the feelings of illegals? These people are taking taxpayer money and American jobs, some committing crimes, and many are not assimilating and speaking English, and Trump wants them to stay?”
THE TRUMP WALL LIE!
"If true, it shows Trump being the ultimate cynic and not having the courage to state his true beliefs to the American public who elected him. That's always been my biggest problem with Trump: his lack of integrity and consistent belief system." ----- ED STRAKER
MEXICO PLANS INVASION TO EXPAND LA RAZA OCCUPATION!
“More significant still, a former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal immigrants and the construction of a border wall. “
MEXICO DUMPS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF TOXIC WASTE ON SAN DIEGO!
“After decades of being a good neighbor and spending more than half a billion dollars to build Tijuana's sewage treatment plants, Mexico has repaid the favor by intentionally unleashing 143 million gallons of stench-filled sewage onto San Diego's beaches over 17 days in February.”
THE FALL OF THE MEXICAN NARCO STATE ON AMERICAN OPEN AND
UNDEFENDED BORDERS.
More significant still, a former Mexican official, Jorge Castañeda, threatened to unleash Mexican cartels onto the U.S. to retaliate for deportations of illegal immigrants and the construction of a border wall.
“Mexico in a country whose four wealthiest billionaires
control as much wealth as the bottom half of the population—
the 65 million that live in poverty (which includes 13 million
living in extreme poverty)—and where the top 10 percent as a
whole accounts for 67 percent of Mexico’s national wealth.”
control as much wealth as the bottom half of the population—
the 65 million that live in poverty (which includes 13 million
living in extreme poverty)—and where the top 10 percent as a
whole accounts for 67 percent of Mexico’s national wealth.”
MEXICO SERVES UP THE HEROIN IN AMERICA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS
IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA “The Race” Mexican occupation.
(CAUTION: GRAPHIC!)
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:
FUNDER OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA “The Race”.
VIVA TOM PEREZ… LONG LIVE MEX FASCISM!
GLOBALLY, ONLY THE MEXICANS ARE AS VIOLENT AND RACIST AS THE MUSLIM BARBARIANS!
DEMOCRAT PARTY: PRO MEXuslim
THE MUSLIM – MEXICAN LA RAZA SUPREMACY FASCIST DEMOCRAT PARTY…. Will the Democrats finish off America?
Former Labor Secretary Tom Perez was elected Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, surviving a severe challenge from radical Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison.
THE OBAMA PLAN: BUILD A MUSLIM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP BY FINISHING OFF WHITE AMERICA…. But didn’t Obama’s crony banksters already do that?
THE DEATH of WHITE AMERICA
“Whites had the highest rate of overdose deaths of any ethnicity, more than double the combined death rate for blacks and Latinos.”
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AMERICA: No Damned Legal Need Apply!
While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”
AMNESTY: IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED!
SANCTUARY CITIES = NO LAWS APPLY TO INVADING ILLEGALS…. But Legals still get the tax bills for their welfare and crime tidal wave even if they voted Democrat!
SANCTUARY CITY NEW YORK LETS LOSE A MS-13 GANG THUG!
The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) claims that Latino street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.
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OPEN BORDERS: The Democrat Party’s Weapon of Mass Destruction on the American Worker
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-la-raza-mexican-crime-tidal-wave.html
"Los Angeles saw all crime rise in 2015: violent crime up 19.9 percent, homicides up 10.2 percent, shooting victims up 12.6 percent, rapes up 8.6 percent, robberies up 12.3 percent, and aggravated assault up 27.5 percent," Landry said.”
IMAGES of LA RAZA CRIMINALS IN LOS
ANGELES ALONE:
200 MOST WANTED (MURDER) CRIMINALS IN LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES:
ROBERT RECTOR:
Importing poverty….
WE ALSO IMPORT ALL THEIR CRIMINALS
“The lifetime costs of Social Security and Medicare benefits of illegal immigrant beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive amnesty would be well over a trillion dollars, according to Heritage Foundation expert Robert Rector’s prepared testimony for a House panel obtained in advance by Breitbart News.”
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS TO U.S.: poverty, anchor baby breeders for welfare, criminals, unregistered dems and HEROIN!
(TOP ?)
ILLEGALS VOTING …. (for more)!
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS ORDERS CALIFORNIA TERMINATED.
MEXICO IMMEDIATELY DENOUNCED THE DECREE AND FIRED SESSIONS.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Emergency Intervention Needed in California NOW!
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS TO U.S.: poverty, anchor baby breeders for welfare, criminals, unregistered dems and HEROIN!
By Arthur Schaper
Townhall.com
In California, illegals can vote: it’s possible and very likely. California’s automatic motor-voter law all but assures that illegals seeking driver’s licenses will get a ballot along with their license.
Miscreants from any corner of the world can register to vote in California online, too. No vetting, no assurance, no integrity.
Voter fraud in broken inner city hellholes like Detroit and New York City cannot compare with the ballot stuffing throughout the once Golden State.
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EL TRUMPO SURRENDERS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA…. Obama’s amnesty handed to them on a silver platter.
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............................................america surrenders to Mexico without a battle!
THE LA RAZA PLAN: California’s final surrender to fly the Mexican flag within 4 years.
"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." -- - EXCELSIOR --- national newspaper of Mexico
They claim all of North America for Mexico!
(WARNING! THE BELOW LINK IS GRAPHIC ON MEXICAN HATRED OF LEGALS)
Second, where is the governor of California calling on AMLO to stop it and go home? More to the point, is California so far gone that no one objects to a foreigner criticizing a U.S. president on our soil?
BILLIONAIRES FOR BORDERLESS AMERICA
….It’s all to keep wages DEPRESSED.
“This nation no longer is a democratic republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out the plans well laid out for him by his backers.”
“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually (DATED FIGURES) in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” --- Christian Science Monitor
While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”
AMNESTY… It’s all about keeping wages DEPRESSED!
SOMEDAY IS HERE TODAY!
THE FALL OF AMERICA UNDER THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY FASCIST INVASION, OCCUPATION AND LOOTING
As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a
2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax'
on legal California residents in the tens of
billions of dollars."
2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax'
on legal California residents in the tens of
billions of dollars."
Statistic of the Week: The average monthly check for the top 100 retired corporate CEO’s is $253,088. The average monthly check for a typical retired US worker is $101. Institute for Policy Studies.
California must stem the flow of illegal immigrants
The state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits, deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize 'sanctuary' cities.
“Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions of dollars."
Is it too late for America?
Obama's Legacy of the 'Hispanicazation' of America
January 10, 2011
By: James Walsh
Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.
While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”
CALIFORNIA UNDER LA RAZA SIEGE:
Mexico’s looting and ethnic cleansing of a once American state.
BARCK OBAMA and the MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS: A PARTNERSHIP
Feds make secret alliance with Sinaloa drug cartel
What does the US Department of Justice, the Sinaloa drug cartel, and the spy corporation Stratfor have in common? According to CIA documents leaked by WikiLeaks, they’re all at the center of the new US strategy in the War on Drugs. In 2012, Whiteout Press exposed the shocking alliance in the article, ‘Secret US Alliance with Sinaloa Cartel exposed’.
THE INVADING CRIMINALS:
A county by county chart:
OBAMA’S INVASION OF ILLEGALS IS WORKING!
They’re already signed up to vote LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEM!
“According to Immigration and Customers Enforcement data first obtained by the Associated Press this week, about 70 percent of the 40,000 migrant family members arrested at the border since May did not follow up their arrest with a necessary visit to an immigration office.”
The Justice Department’s National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) claims that Latino street gangs like the MS-13 are responsible for the majority of violent crimes in the U.S. and are the primary distributors of most illicit drugs.
AMERICA’S BLUDGEONED YOUTH: Homeless, Hopeless and Addicted…. Will they
start the revolution?
"Public education as a whole came
under brutal attack as part of the Obama administration’s effort to shift the
burden of the financial crisis onto the backs of the working class."
THE GIG JOB – In America, No Legal Need Apply
"Possibly most affected by this shift in the economy is the
Millennial generation, those aged 18-30. The report notes that more
than half of those under age 25 participate in independent work, not
just in the United States but throughout the European Union
as well."
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY: MUCK AMERICA’S YOUTH…. WE’VE GOT OUR ILLEGALS
CLIMBING THE BORDERS, JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS!
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
pounds America’s youth as they build a border to border Mexican welfare state
on our backs!
AMERICA’S YOUTH STARVE
…… ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE… they also get our
jobs!
The new reports show that in addition to
“traditional” coping strategies of skipping meals and eating cheap food, these
teens and pre-teens are increasingly forced into shoplifting, stealing, selling
drugs, joining a gang, or selling their bodies for money in a struggle to eat properly.
AMERICA STUDENTS STARVE:
Report on the impact of
OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS-TRUMPERNOMICS