{"id":14100,"date":"2015-11-03T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14100"},"modified":"2015-11-03T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:02:36","slug":"21-facts-about-the-explosive-growth-of-poverty-in-america-that-will-blow-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14100","title":{"rendered":"21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/21-facts-about-the-explosive-growth-of-poverty-in-america-that-will-blow-your-mind\" target=\"_blank\">21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/21-facts-about-the-explosive-growth-of-poverty-in-america-that-will-blow-your-mind\/poverty-in-america-public-domain\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9408\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9408\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poverty-In-America-Public-Domain-460x304.jpg\" alt=\"Poverty In America - Public Domain\" width=\"460\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a>What you are about to see is more evidence that the growth of poverty in the United States is wildly out of control.\u00a0 It turns out that there is a tremendous amount of suffering in \u201cthe wealthiest nation on the planet\u201d, and it is getting worse with each passing year.\u00a0 During this election season, politicians of all stripes are running around telling all of us how great we are, but is that really true?\u00a0 As you will see below, poverty is reaching unprecedented levels in this country, and the middle class\u00a0<a title=\"is steadily dying\" href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/goodbye-middle-class-51-percent-of-all-american-workers-make-less-than-30000-dollars-a-year\" target=\"_blank\">is steadily dying<\/a>.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t enough good jobs to go around, dependence on the government has never been greater, and it is our children that are being hit the hardest.\u00a0 If we have this many people living on the edge of despair now, while times are \u201cgood\u201d, what are things going to look like when our economy really starts falling apart?\u00a0 The following are 21 facts about the explosive growth of poverty in America that will blow your mind\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>#1<\/strong>\u00a0The U.S. Census Bureau says that\u00a0<a title=\"nearly 47 million Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/09\/americas-poverty-problem\/405700\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 47 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0are living in poverty right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2<\/strong>\u00a0Other numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau are also very disturbing.\u00a0 For example, in 2007 about one out of every eight children in America was on food stamps.\u00a0 Today, that number\u00a0<a title=\"is one out of every five\" href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2015\/cb15-16.html\" target=\"_blank\">is one out of every five<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3<\/strong>\u00a0According to Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, the authors of a new book entitled \u201c<a title=\"$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1MtYB9y\" target=\"_blank\">$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America<\/a>\u201c, there are 1.5 million \u201cultrapoor\u201d households in the United States that live on less than two dollars a day.\u00a0 That number has doubled since 1996.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#4<\/strong>\u00a0<a title=\"46 million Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/46-million-americans-go-to-food-banks-and-long-lines-for-dwindling-food-supplies-begin-at-630-am\">46 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0use food banks each year, and lines start forming at some U.S. food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning because people want to get something before the food supplies run out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Facts About The Explosive Growth Of Poverty In America That Will Blow Your Mind What you are about to see is more evidence that the growth of poverty in the United States is wildly out of control.\u00a0 It turns out that there is a tremendous amount of suffering in \u201cthe wealthiest nation on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8648,5212,4901,2137,642,827],"class_list":["post-14100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economicollapseblog","tag-food-stamps","tag-michael-snyder","tag-middle-class","tag-poverty","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14101,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions\/14101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}