US is a 'world leader' in child poverty

[Luddly Neddite]

PROOF that "China just ended 40% of the world's poverty"??

China accounts for 100% of the reduction in the number of the world's people living in poverty
In 2010 Professor Danny Quah, of the London School of Economics, noted: 'In the last 3 decades, China alone has lifted more people out of extreme poverty than the rest of the world combined. Indeed, China’s ($1/day) poverty reduction of 627 million from 1981 to 2005 exceeds the total global economy’s decline in its extremely poor from 1.9 billion to 1.4 billion over the same period.'


Does Luddy feel stupid and violent and liberal???

First, your quote says "China". It does NOT say "the world".
Second, your link doesn't work

The material that you requested,

/~dquah/p/2010.05-Shifting_Distribution_GEA-DQ.pdf

could not be found.

dear, why not tell us what % of the world's poverty you think China eliminated with Republican capitalism?? You would want to know more than anything -right?? Do you want to be on the side of impoverishing and slowly starving millions to death just becuase you are too lazy to do your research? Your bigotry rut is very comfortable isn't it!!

Prove your assertion that "China just ended 40% of the world's poverty".




Alternatively, you could just stop

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Yeah right.......yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare. Yeah, keep thinking the poor will become rich if we just stop making them dependent......like why don't we do that with corporations?

yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare.

thank you for verifying my point

the increase in snap and snap like programs

demonstrate that the war of poverty has been a complete failure

if had been successful there would be less snaps not more

I didn't verify your point.......you're failing to look at the whole picture. The reason for the increase has many factors. The characteristics of family structure has changed, where there are now more households headed by women......and conservatives support the idea that women do not need to receive equal pay for equal work.

-- 83 percent of which were headed by women -- had poverty rates of 40.3 percent.
Specifically, they find that the unemployment rate, median wages, and wage inequality in the lower half of the wage distribution all are significant determinants of poverty rates.

Also, there is the fact that prices continue to rise, more families fall into poverty because they hold low-income jobs and conservatives refuse to raise the minimum wage.

So, rather than celebrating your idea that taking welfare and snaps away would totally eliminate poverty, why don't you make yourself familiar with the factors that contribute to it.

Why Poverty Persists

you certainly have

if the war on poverty has been successful

there would be less poverty not more

there is no other way to look at it

period

we know how to end poverty. China just ended 40% of the world's poverty by switching to Republican capitalism.

SpecialEdDear does this all the time.

Says something really outrageous and then, when he can't back up his ridiculous claim, just starts calling others "too stupid".

 

[Luddly Neddite]

EdwardBaiamonte

Or, just as likely, he turns tail and runs.

Dang. I was so hoping to learn how "China just ended 40% of the world's poverty".

 

[Muhammed]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

China is now ranked number 1. Obozo did that two years ago with his DOUBLE credit downgrade.

Poor loony toon.

Repubs never take responsibility for what they do.

Luddly, it really sounds like you're projecting.

 

[jillian]

This is a pretty sad situation, no matter how these kids got poor.
But here we are, the world's weathiest country who has "In God We Trust" on our money and "under God" in our Pledge of Alligence and innocent kids are treated this way.
Ask yourself, what would God do?

China is now ranked number 1. Obozo did that two years ago with his DOUBLE credit downgrade.

Poor loony toon.

Repubs never take responsibility for what they do.

Luddly, it really sounds like you're projecting.

No.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Thing is, Repubs raise taxes on the working poor,?

100% stupid and liberal as always. Working poor pay no taxes, in fact all of them get the EITC. They pay no taxes and still get a refund!!

it is not a refund

it is a hand out

But I'll bet if you overpay your taxes and get a check, its a "refund".

of course an over payment is a refund

refund

Also found in: Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
re·fund
(rĭ-fŭnd′, rē′fŭnd′)
v. re·fund·ed, re·fund·ing, re·funds
v.tr.
To give back, especially money; return or repay: refunded the purchase price.
v.intr.
To make repayment.
n. (rē′fŭnd′)
1. A repayment of funds.
2. An amount repaid.

folks who get the EITC credit receive more then they paid in

so it is not a R-E-F-U-N-D

as for refunds

i dont know why people do it

why loan out your money interest free

makes no sense

 

[Publius1787]

The Numbers Are Staggering: U.S. Is 'World Leader' in Child Poverty



By Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

April 13, 2015

America's wealth grew by 60 percent in the past six years, by over $30 trillion. In approximately the same time, the number of homeless children has also grown by 60 percent.

Financier and CEO Peter Schiff said, "People don’t go hungry in a capitalist economy." The 16 million kids on food stamps know what it's like to go hungry. Perhaps, some in Congress would say, those children should be working. "There is no such thing as a free lunch," insisted Georgia Representative Jack Kingston, even for schoolkids, who should be required to "sweep the floor of the cafeteria" (as theyactually do at a charter school in Texas).

$5 a Day for Food, But Congress Thought it was Too Much.

Nearly half of all food stamp recipients are children, and they averaged about $5 a day for their meals before the 2014 farm bill cut $8.6 billion (over the next ten years) from the food stamp program.

For Every 2 Homeless Children in 2006, There Are Now 3

On a typical frigid night in January, 138,000 children, according to the U.S. Department of Housing, were without a place to call home.

That's about the same number of households that have each increased their wealth by $10 million per yearsince the recession.

The US: Near the Bottom in Education, and Sinking

The U.S. ranks near the bottom of the developed worldin the percentage of 4-year-olds in early childhood education. Early education should be a primary goal for the future, as numerous studies have shown that pre-school helps all children to achieve more and earn more through adulthood, with the most disadvantaged benefiting the most. But we're going in the opposite direction. Head Start was recently hit with the worst cutbacks in its history.

Children's Rights? Not in the U.S.

It's hard to comprehend the thinking of people who cut funding for homeless and hungry children. It may be delusion about trickle-down, it may be indifference to poverty, it may be resentment toward people unable to "make it on their own."

The indifference and resentment and disdain for society reach around the globe. Only two nations still refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: South Sudan and the United States.


Kingston isn't the only Republican to say kids should work in their schools. Remember when Newt Gingrich said they should clean the toilets at school?

I realize they're not fetuses but we cannot let the Republicans get away with cutting food stamps.

QUIT HAVING BABIES YOU CANT AFFORD!!!!!! Every other civilized society in history (Including us in the great depression) slowed the amount they procreated in hard times. The Welfare State has made people comfortable in their poverty and thus they fuck like rabbits.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

QUIT HAVING BABIES YOU CANT AFFORD!!

Liberals are anti-science. Where evolution says survival to reproduce the fittest causes successful evolution liberals say survival of the least fit causes sucessful evolution.

 

[Mertex]

it is sad how much liberalism has added to poverty

give it enough years of and we will catch up to those standards

Yeah right.......yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare. Yeah, keep thinking the poor will become rich if we just stop making them dependent......like why don't we do that with corporations?

yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare.

thank you for verifying my point

the increase in snap and snap like programs

demonstrate that the war of poverty has been a complete failure

if had been successful there would be less snaps not more

I didn't verify your point.......you're failing to look at the whole picture. The reason for the increase has many factors. The characteristics of family structure has changed, where there are now more households headed by women......and conservatives support the idea that women do not need to receive equal pay for equal work.

-- 83 percent of which were headed by women -- had poverty rates of 40.3 percent.
Specifically, they find that the unemployment rate, median wages, and wage inequality in the lower half of the wage distribution all are significant determinants of poverty rates.

Also, there is the fact that prices continue to rise, more families fall into poverty because they hold low-income jobs and conservatives refuse to raise the minimum wage.

So, rather than celebrating your idea that taking welfare and snaps away would totally eliminate poverty, why don't you make yourself familiar with the factors that contribute to it.

Why Poverty Persists

you certainly have

if the war on poverty has been successful

there would be less poverty not more

there is no other way to look at it

period

I guess so. If you're an idiot there is not other way to look at it.

But, most intelligent people will be able to deduct that the war on poverty has kept poverty from being even worse. Period.

 

[Mertex]

it is sad how much liberalism has added to poverty

give it enough years of and we will catch up to those standards

Yeah right.......yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare. Yeah, keep thinking the poor will become rich if we just stop making them dependent......like why don't we do that with corporations?

yet it is the Republicans who keep wanting to cut snaps (and have at times), and get rid of welfare.

thank you for verifying my point

the increase in snap and snap like programs

demonstrate that the war of poverty has been a complete failure

if had been successful there would be less snaps not more

I didn't verify your point.......you're failing to look at the whole picture. The reason for the increase has many factors. The characteristics of family structure has changed, where there are now more households headed by women......and conservatives support the idea that women do not need to receive equal pay for equal work.

-- 83 percent of which were headed by women -- had poverty rates of 40.3 percent.
Specifically, they find that the unemployment rate, median wages, and wage inequality in the lower half of the wage distribution all are significant determinants of poverty rates.

Also, there is the fact that prices continue to rise, more families fall into poverty because they hold low-income jobs and conservatives refuse to raise the minimum wage.

So, rather than celebrating your idea that taking welfare and snaps away would totally eliminate poverty, why don't you make yourself familiar with the factors that contribute to it.

Why Poverty Persists

you certainly have

if the war on poverty has been successful

there would be less poverty not more

there is no other way to look at it

period

we know how to end poverty. China just ended 40% of the world's poverty by switching to Republican capitalism.

Bwahahaha....except Republicans in the United States think that the way to end poverty is to cut all help to the poor.

I guess if they all die of starvation, that would end poverty.........

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

But, most intelligent people will be able to deduct that the war on poverty has kept poverty from being even worse. Period.

dear, China just eliminated 40% of the entire world's poverty by switching to Republican capitalism, not by more war on poverty welfare programs.

See why we have to be positive that liberalism is based in pure ignorance?

 

[Mertex]

Thing is, Repubs raise taxes on the working poor,?

100% stupid and liberal as always. Working poor pay no taxes, in fact all of them get the EITC. They pay no taxes and still get a refund!!

Are all conservatives as dumb as you are, or are you their poster child?

That leaves many other taxes for those we call the "working poor" to pay either directly or indirectly. -

All of us pay sales taxes as well, which in some areas can be as high as 10% when state and local taxes are combined. -

In other words, a poor family may pay out as much as 3% of their total income in sales taxes, while a wealthy family is likely to pay 1% or less. -

Property taxes are paid by all the working poor as well. Even those who rent are paying the true cost of property taxes. This is clear once you understand the principle that in business all costs have to be passed on to the consumer. -
The Working Poor Do Pay Taxes

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

I guess if they all die of starvation, that would end poverty.........

Stupid stupid stupid!! and 1000% liberal. Dear, they died of starvation to the tune of about 120 million under libsoviet interventions but when China switched to Republican capitalism they stopped starving to death and started getting rich.

Do you understand your ABC's now??

 

[Mertex]

But, most intelligent people will be able to deduct that the war on poverty has kept poverty from being even worse. Period.

dear, China just eliminated 40% of the entire world's poverty by switching to Republican capitalism, not by more war on poverty welfare programs.

See why we have to be positive that liberalism is based in pure ignorance?

You seem to be the ignorant here, thinking the working poor pay no taxes.

But, being the gullible person that you are, you are going to believe anything that re-enforces your greedy nature.

Wiki:
At the same time, however, income disparities have increased. The growing income inequality is illustrated most clearly by the differences in living standards between the urban, coastal areas and the rural, inland regions. There have also been increases in the inequality of health and educationoutcomes. Exact statistics are disputed, as there have been reports of China's underestimating the poverty rate.




I'm always happy to educate you, uninformed people.

 

[Mertex]

I guess if they all die of starvation, that would end poverty.........

Stupid stupid stupid!! and 1000% liberal. Dear, they died of starvation to the tune of about 120 million under libsoviet interventions but when China switched to Republican capitalism they stopped starving to death and started getting rich.

Do you understand your ABC's now??

Maybe Republican Capitalists in China lie just like the Republican Capitalists in America do.

Wiki:
Exact statistics are disputed, as there have been reports of China's underestimating the poverty rate.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Thing is, Repubs raise taxes on the working poor,?

100% stupid and liberal as always. Working poor pay no taxes, in fact all of them get the EITC. They pay no taxes and still get a refund!!

Are all conservatives as dumb as you are, or are you their poster child?

That leaves many other taxes for those we call the "working poor" to pay either directly or indirectly. -

All of us pay sales taxes as well, which in some areas can be as high as 10% when state and local taxes are combined. -

In other words, a poor family may pay out as much as 3% of their total income in sales taxes, while a wealthy family is likely to pay 1% or less. -

Property taxes are paid by all the working poor as well. Even those who rent are paying the true cost of property taxes. This is clear once you understand the principle that in business all costs have to be passed on to the consumer. -
The Working Poor Do Pay Taxes

Dear, we were talking about Federal Taxes!! The top 1%
pay about 40% of all federal income taxes. The poor get a free ride plus a check!! Even at the state level in NY and CA the top 1% pay 55% of the entire state budgets!! Again the poor get a free ride and hardly pay their fair share.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

I guess if they all die of starvation, that would end poverty.........

Stupid stupid stupid!! and 1000% liberal. Dear, they died of starvation to the tune of about 120 million under libsoviet interventions but when China switched to Republican capitalism they stopped starving to death and started getting rich.

Do you understand your ABC's now??

Maybe Republican Capitalists in China lie just like the Republican Capitalists in America do.

Wiki:
Exact statistics are disputed, as there have been reports of China's underestimating the poverty rate.

too stupid!! under Republican capitalism all seem to agree they have achieved 7-10% growth per years for 30 years. There is no despute.Wwe know for a fact they now buy more cars than Americans when under liberalism they bought virtually none.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

there have been reports of China's underestimating the poverty rate.

too stupid!!! by 1000%!!! ) OP says USA is world leader when in fact the "poor" in America are 10 times richer than the poor in Bulgaria!!!

See why we say pure ignorance??

 

[Mertex]

I guess if they all die of starvation, that would end poverty.........

Stupid stupid stupid!! and 1000% liberal. Dear, they died of starvation to the tune of about 120 million under libsoviet interventions but when China switched to Republican capitalism they stopped starving to death and started getting rich.

Do you understand your ABC's now??

Maybe Republican Capitalists in China lie just like the Republican Capitalists in America do.

Wiki:
Exact statistics are disputed, as there have been reports of China's underestimating the poverty rate.

too stupid!! under Republican capitalism all seem to agree they have achieved 7-10% growth per years for 30 years. There is no despute.Wwe know for a fact they now buy more cars than Americans when under liberalism they bought virtually none.

there have been reports of China's underestimating the poverty rate.

too stupid!!! by 1000%!!! ) OP says USA is world leader when in fact the "poor" in America are 10 times richer than the poor in Bulgaria!!!

See why we say pure ignorance??

Thing is, Repubs raise taxes on the working poor,?

100% stupid and liberal as always. Working poor pay no taxes, in fact all of them get the EITC. They pay no taxes and still get a refund!!

Are all conservatives as dumb as you are, or are you their poster child?

That leaves many other taxes for those we call the "working poor" to pay either directly or indirectly. -

All of us pay sales taxes as well, which in some areas can be as high as 10% when state and local taxes are combined. -

In other words, a poor family may pay out as much as 3% of their total income in sales taxes, while a wealthy family is likely to pay 1% or less. -

Property taxes are paid by all the working poor as well. Even those who rent are paying the true cost of property taxes. This is clear once you understand the principle that in business all costs have to be passed on to the consumer. -
The Working Poor Do Pay Taxes

Dear, we were talking about Federal Taxes!! The top 1%
pay about 40% of all federal income taxes. The poor get a free ride plus a check!! Even at the state level in NY and CA the top 1% pay 55% of the entire state budgets!! Again the poor get a free ride and hardly pay their fair share.

Idiot, you said the working poor pay not taxes.....sales tax is "taxes"....as for the federal tax, that is so ignorant. If you're not making too much money, of course you're going to pay less.....but, they're not getting a free ride, they're paying what they are supposed to under our tax laws. You can't squeeze blood from a turnip.

You conservatives have no compassion for the poor. You'd like it better if the poor just turned over their entire pay check, so you could turn around and give it to the corporations. But, you love to call yourselves the "compassionate conservatives" - guess that went by the wayside just like "family values" did.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

You conservatives have no compassion for the poor. .

and you're morally superior or a bigot who wants to help the poor into early graves with compassionate socialism as Stalin and Mao did to the tune of 120 million dead. Do you know why our liberals spied for Stalin. Do ya punk?