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Originally Posted by aegsm76
This is a little old, (2007), but I could not find anything newer.
•Forty-six percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three bedroom house with one and a half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
•Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
•Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two thirds have more than two rooms per person.
•The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
•Nearly three quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.
•Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
•Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
•Seventy-three percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.
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Great article. Socialite is pushing the big gubment agenda.
Heritage comments.
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The remaining poverty in the U.S. can be reduced further, particularly poverty among children. There are two main reasons that American children are poor: Their parents don't work much, and fathers are absent from the home.
In good economic times or bad, the typical poor family with children is supported by only 800 hours of work during a year: That amounts to 16 hours of work per week. If work in each family were raised to 2,000 hours per year-the equivalent of one adult working 40 hours per week throughout the year- nearly 75 percent of poor children would be lifted out of official poverty.
Father absence is another major cause of child poverty. Nearly two-thirds of poor children reside in single-parent homes; each year, an additional 1.5 million children are born out of wedlock. If poor mothers married the fathers of their children, almost three-quarters would immediately be lifted out of poverty.
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so it is a cultural values problem. Socialite says big Gubment has answers.
If mothers and fathers decided to get married before raising children together, we would have less poverty. So big Gubment is irrelevant. it is mostly a cultural value probllem. so big gubment schools give out birth control stuff, teach sex at early age and pay for abortions. So big gubment is part of the problem and not the solution. No wonder big Gubment doesn't want to teach abstinence as 100% effective,. No wonder big gubment advocates get so angry at me. Big gubment is in the carnality business.
The lawyers get a big cut when they fight over child support. No wonder both parents are broke. Heritage Foundation is a dirty word for the extreme left. They have too much truth.
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