{"id":77,"date":"2004-08-26T11:10:52","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T15:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"are-you-better-off-now-than-you-were-four-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Census data, as <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/08\/26\/news\/economy\/poverty_survey\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">reported by CNN\/Money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px\"><i>Survey: More Americans in poverty <\/p>\n<p>Census Bureau report says 1.3 million slipped below benchmark; health care coverage also declines.<br \/>\nAugust 26, 2004: 11:04 AM EDT <\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8211; The number of Americans living in poverty jumped by 1.3 million last year as household incomes held steady, the Census Bureau said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty rose to 12.5 percent from 12.1 percent &#8212; as the poverty rate among children jumped to its highest level in 10 years. The rate for adults 18-to-64 and 65 and older remained steady. <\/p>\n<p>The bureau also said that the share of aggregate income for the lowest 20 percent of Americans fell to 3.4 percent from 3.5 percent.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:10px; margin-right:10px\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/costofwar.com\">Costofwar.com<\/a> The money spent so far in Iraq (ignoring the thousands of lives) could have funded health insurance for 55 million kids for a year, or funded 1.9 million public housing units.  Of course, Halliburton probably wouldn&#8217;t have gotten those contracts.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census data, as reported by CNN\/Money: Survey: More Americans in poverty Census Bureau report says 1.3 million slipped below benchmark; health care coverage also declines. August 26, 2004: 11:04 AM EDT WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8211; The number of Americans living in poverty jumped by 1.3 million last year as household incomes held steady, the Census Bureau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}