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I was going to write a fisking of the recent mainstream news stories on the scourge of rising poverty rates under Bush's first term, but Cody Hatch at Prudent Politics beat me to it (and saved me the work of digging up relevant contextual stats). For example ...

What's especially interesting, however, is when we compare 2003 with 1996 (the last year of Clinton's first term). The number of poor in 2003: 35.9 million; 1996: 36.5 million. How about the percentage of poor? 2003: 12.5 percent; 1996: 13.7 percent. Surprising, huh? Strangely, I don't recall the mainstream media running stories similar to today's.

Read the rest. Nice work.

UPDATE: QandO takes on the uninsured figures from the same Census report and does a similar analysis, and adds this:

And there is a dramatic discrepancy--much larger than with any other racial category--between Hispanic males and Hispanic females. Indicating? Well, it seems a large component of our uninsured problem--and the health care problems that creates--is a result of mass (and, perhaps, temporary) immigration, and not a lack of economic oppportunity.

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Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at August 27, 2004 12:57 PM

Posted by: tee bee at August 27, 2004 05:38 PM