Comments on: Poverty Drops But Ranks Of Uninsured Grow

First Significant Dip In U.S. Poverty Since 2000; But Number Of Uninsured Increases To 47 Million

[prairiefox1]

With the ridiculous fuel prices and food and other goods going up accordingly and jobs being out-sourced that these lying essobee,s think we are so dumb as to swallow this?
lets show them as a nation that we do not buy it!
It is like a crook pointing a gun and saying relax while he robbed you!

[a100mike]

The astronomical numbers of kids in federal and state prisons is indicitive of the poverty prevelant in this country. If a presidential candidate wants to be the voice of the poor, he should demand that we do something to stop putting our kids in prison. The long sentences must be reduced now.

[rushlimpdrug]

How many of the 47 million are illegals?
Posted by gunnerv1

48 million illegals (if you count the pregnant illegals).

[klingon69]

"For a family of four with two children, for example, the poverty level is $20,444"

Those are the dumbest numbers I''''ve ever read - why don''''t they drop the poverty level to $15,000 and take some more people out of poverty???
Posted by oleander8 at 12:36 PM : Aug 28, 2007

Ok, $20,444 for a family of 4 is $393.15 per week before taxes, medicare, fica...etc. This does not count state income taxes.
This works out to about $98.29 per family member per week, before taxes.
My info may be wrong but isn''t 24% the average taken out for taxes?
If that is correct, that brings the weekly paycheck down to $298.79.
As for insurance even employer insurance rates are astronomical. When I worked at another retailer, I took the insurance. It was $9.99 a week for myself, $19.99 every week for myself and my wife, but when I added my son it went to $59.99 per week to cover all 3 of us. Thats over $3000 per year just for basic health coverage. And they only paid 50-80%.
The bad thing is that as a veteran I don''t need insurance, but my family does, and can''t get insurance on just them, at least not through my job.

[l8c6]

How is wealth defined in the global economy initiated by U.S. corporatism and the central banking systems. The size of your electronic banking account. To h*ell with healthcare, family life, education, personal time/leisure vacation. It''s all about that number, therein lies our "freedoms" and therein lies the quest until we die. What an ideology of death and destruction the neo con right wings and evangelical religious hypocrits perpetually have for humanity through the centuries.

[nexgen99]

Of the 47 million stated, 30 million are illegal from mexico.

[luvcomments]

"The median household income was $48,200, a slight increase from the previous year."

So, how much has the cost of living increased during this slight increase in income?

Like my grandmother always said, "Figures don''t lie; liars figure".

[abaur2]

Unbelievable what this Government publishes at taxpayers expense no less. No wonder we get no respect from Al Quida. I suppose we cannot expect too much from Senators who screw around in public bathrooms looking for a trick. A sick bunch of politicians from the President all the way to the politicians who store 90''000 USD in the freezer for hard times. It is time to clean house, send them into space forever.

[antoniof123]

realpatriot1 well said and the truth is the ultimate defense....

[kaiyo4u]

"For a family of four with two children, for example, the poverty level is $20,444"

Those are the dumbest numbers I''''ve ever read - why don''''t they drop the poverty level to $15,000 and take some more people out of poverty???

Realistically, could you live on $15,000.00 a year?
To be comfortable, it''s at least $40,000 a year for a single person and that''s at a low comfort level.

[erik2590]

Bush''s fault? I suppose you don''t remember who the idiot was that signed NAFTA. Give me a break...

[gunnerv1]

How many of the 47 million are illegals?

[oleander8]

"For a family of four with two children, for example, the poverty level is $20,444"

Those are the dumbest numbers I''ve ever read - why don''t they drop the poverty level to $15,000 and take some more people out of poverty???

[Syndicate]

Its all Bush''s Fault.

[michellem99-2009]

I am sorry but the people that wrote that story don''t know the truth..Povety..be low the poverty line is more like it...I am 52, a special needs adult, poorly schooled, a foster child growing up, on a small income..Poverty is very mush alive. The sighted pretend it is not there when it is...GET REAL...I was one who cared due being poor to never have a child as due to health issues and handicaps ..So I had to demand sterilision so no babies..I did so to save that pain..of ever having children I could not take care of.

[realpatriot1]

Congratulations, you''re not poor! Now the bad news, you can''t afford to be well.