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From Page 9 of the US Census publication: Changes in Areas With Concentrated Povery: 2000 to 2010 (http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2014/acs/acs-27.pdf)

Former Confederate states are more prone to being poverty stricken than Union states?

That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

Sorry...I forgot to add the 2000 statistics. Only makes sense by way of comparison between 2000 and 2010.

Now added to OP.

This came off as a slam against the South, which I didn't intend (I live there). The whole nation got more poverty stricken in the 10 year period...pretty scary shift.

Yup. The wealth distribution became much more lopsided in the past few decades. I blame corporate America for it.

Spreading from southern border states?....Dey turk err jurbs!!

Homeless people don't like the cold and move south maybe?

 jasper76 wrote:
Sorry...I forgot to add the 2000 statistics. Only makes sense by way of comparison between 2000 and 2010.

Now added to OP.

This came off as a slam against the South, which I didn't intend (I live there). The whole nation got more poverty stricken in the 10 year period...pretty scary shift.

Might want to switch them around and put the 2000 map (fig 3) before the 2010 map (fig 4).

My initial reaction was "poverty in the South decreased?"

To be accurate you kind of need to remove the illegal immigrant population to make an apples to apples comparison.

You would also have to sensitize for cost of living.

$20,000 a year in Louisiana is seriously different than in Southern California.

Much better now...thanks!

Thanks OBAMA!

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Thanks OBAMA!

Right, because Obama was President from 2000 - 2008.

Now that I look at it, it looks like every state except Wyoming got worse.

Like Rome we need a new infusion of cash and pronto. If only we had a sparsely inhabited territory nearby, rich in natural resources to exploit.
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(looks north)
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Oh yea , look out, that Canadian is going to attack! BLAM BLAM.
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Our only clear path to annex that evil aggressor Canadia, so that they cannot attack us again.
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PROFIT!

 Frazzled wrote:
Now that I look at it, it looks like every state except Wyoming got worse.

Alaska

Actually, AK, DC, UT, HI, WA, VT, NH, ND, SD, RI, NM, LA, MS, WV and MA didn't move....maybe more. My eyes hurt now.

 Desubot wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Now that I look at it, it looks like every state except Wyoming got worse.

Alaska

Good point. Hawaii too.


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 jasper76 wrote:
Actually, AK, DC, UT, HI, WA, VT, NH, ND, SD, RI, NM, LA, MS, WV and MA didn't move....maybe more. My eyes hurt now.

DC is not a state.

touche

 jasper76 wrote:

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:
Thanks OBAMA!

Right, because Obama was President from 2000 - 2008.

Can you think of anything that happened in, say, around 2009 that might, perhaps, have had an impact on things? Hmmmm...?

 jasper76 wrote:
Actually, AK, DC, UT, HI, WA, VT, NH, ND, SD, RI, NM, LA, MS, WV and MA didn't move....maybe more. My eyes hurt now.

As a point of analysis, it's important to point out that you are counting as "didn't move" some areas that were already at the limit for the scale. The nature of the map is such that a move from 19.8% to 20.01% (a change of 0.21%) is discernible, while a mover from 30% to 45%, for example, is not.

It's really a very, very poor set of data for drawing any conclusions.

So... how do you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford bootstraps?

 curran12 wrote:
That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

There is no money in, or coming from, helping the poor so getting much done about it is slow going at best. Besides we have a War on Drugs, War on Crime, and War on Christmas that need all the time, money, and energy we can muster.

 Fafnir wrote:
So... how do you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford bootstraps?

I thought I answered that. Invade Canada. They have lots of bootstraps, ripe for the taking!


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 Ahtman wrote:

 curran12 wrote:
That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

There is no money in, or coming from, helping the poor so getting much done about it is slow going at best. Besides we have a War on Drugs, War on Crime, and War on Christmas that need all the time, money, and energy we can muster.

Its also important to have an open border to keep wages down.

 Buzzsaw wrote:
Can you think of anything that happened in, say, around 2009 that might, perhaps, have had an impact on things? Hmmmm...?

That didn't happen overnight but due to long running issues that finally came to a head.

I also wonder how much the huge student college debt plays a part.


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 Frazzled wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
So... how do you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford bootstraps?

I thought I answered that. Invade Canada. They have lots of bootstraps, ripe for the taking!

Oh no, I'm not falling for that again.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
So... how do you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford bootstraps?

I thought I answered that. Invade Canada. They have lots of bootstraps, ripe for the taking!


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 Ahtman wrote:

 curran12 wrote:
That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

There is no money in, or coming from, helping the poor so getting much done about it is slow going at best. Besides we have a War on Drugs, War on Crime, and War on Christmas that need all the time, money, and energy we can muster.

Its also important to have an open border to keep wages down.

Heh, yet another thread best summed up with an image and a link;

 Buzzsaw wrote:
Can you think of anything that happened in, say, around 2009 that might, perhaps, have had an impact on things? Hmmmm...?

The Great Recession started with the subprime mortgage collapse in 2007. GW Bush was President, and Obama was a Senator. But if it makes you feel better to blame Obama for everything. have at it I suppose.

 Buzzsaw wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
So... how do you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford bootstraps?

I thought I answered that. Invade Canada. They have lots of bootstraps, ripe for the taking!


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 Ahtman wrote:

 curran12 wrote:
That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

There is no money in, or coming from, helping the poor so getting much done about it is slow going at best. Besides we have a War on Drugs, War on Crime, and War on Christmas that need all the time, money, and energy we can muster.

Its also important to have an open border to keep wages down.

Heh, yet another thread best summed up with an image and a link;

Damn poverty stricken blue states...

 d-usa wrote:

 Buzzsaw wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

 Fafnir wrote:
So... how do you pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford bootstraps?

I thought I answered that. Invade Canada. They have lots of bootstraps, ripe for the taking!


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 Ahtman wrote:

 curran12 wrote:
That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

There is no money in, or coming from, helping the poor so getting much done about it is slow going at best. Besides we have a War on Drugs, War on Crime, and War on Christmas that need all the time, money, and energy we can muster.

Its also important to have an open border to keep wages down.

Heh, yet another thread best summed up with an image and a link;

Damn poverty stricken blue states...

Indeed.

This is the point where we point to the maps of poverty and compare them to political denominations. Then somebody will say "correlation =/= causation". Then we can post the data showing he information about which states send money to the federal government and which states take money from the federal government. Then we refute any of that data. Then somebody will talk about "urban" welfare families with thinly veiled attempts at race-baiting (maybe even talk about how liberals keep blacks down). Then we will provide the data that there are just as many white families on welfare as black. Then somebody will proclaim "I've never used any government handout". Then we find out they got a Pell Grant, took the Mortgage deduction or the child care credit on their taxes. Then somebody will start calling Obama Hitler, somebody will scream Neocon, somebody will proclaim that he is a RepubliCan and not a RepubliCan't while pulling their bootstraps through their monitor, and then the thread gets locked.

So since we all know how this thread will end can we just go back to watching cat videos on YouTube?

 d-usa wrote:
This is the point where we...So since we all know how this thread will end can we just go back to watching cat videos on YouTube?

Yes.

It looks like an upside down warthog... or maybe an anteater...

 purplefood wrote:
It looks like an upside down warthog... or maybe an anteater...

The title of the video wasn't enough of a clue?