one way Obama is helping the middle class

[SuperDemocrat]

In the same way that republicans are accused of selling out the middle class by allowing companies to go over seas to find cheap labor the Democratic Party is selling out the middle class by importing those workers here...it's called amnesty. Obama has decided to import cheap labor to the United States so that the middle class can have jobs. There is no way that can go wrong! Jobs are hard enough to find so I can't imagine how much harder that will be when 100 amnestifiec illegals are now applying for the same job I am. It has got to be good for wages as well. I am so glad I voted for him.

 

[Sonny Clark]

In the same way that republicans are accused of selling out the middle class by allowing companies to go over seas to find cheap labor the Democratic Party is selling out the middle class by importing those workers here...it's called amnesty. Obama has decided to import cheap labor to the United States so that the middle class can have jobs. There is no way that can go wrong! Jobs are hard enough to find so I can't imagine how much harder that will be when 100 amnestifiec illegals are now applying for the same job I am. It has got to be good for wages as well. I am so glad I voted for him.

More children living in poverty now than during recession

A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday.

About 22% of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013, compared with 18% in 2008, the foundation's 2015 Kids Count Data Book reported. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Human and Health Service's official poverty line was $23,624 for a family with two adults and two children.

“The fact that it’s happening is disturbing on lots of levels,” said Laura Speer, the associate director for policy reform and advocacy at the Casey Foundation, a non-profit based in Baltimore. “Those kids often don’t have the access to the things they need to thrive.” The foundation says its mission is to help low-income children in the U.S. by providing grants and advocating for policies that promote economic opportunity.

The report examined data from several federal agencies ranging from 2008 to 2013 to assess state-by-state trends of 16 factors of children's well-being, including economics, education, health and family and community. It found that one in four children — a total of 18.7 million kids — lived in low-income households in 2013; low-income families were defined as those who use more than 30% of their pre-tax income for housing.