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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:20 AM
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100 Million Americans In Poverty Or Right On The Edge
50 million are on food assistance
“These numbers are higher than we anticipated,” said Trudi J. Renwick, the bureau’s chief poverty statistician. “There are more people struggling than the official numbers show.”

Source: NYT

I think the word DEPRESSION of 2011 is here
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:24 AM
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1. We're there. And we're both working.
Dog help us all...
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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:25 AM
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2. The cuts they are planning to social services
are economic genocide.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:47 AM
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3. Yep
they need to give people jobs and given the kids with college debt reprieve and jobs
Jobs Jobs Jobs
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:48 AM
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4. "higher than we anticipated"
Sort of like the fudged unemployment numbers?

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