Poverty

Again – we have become more like a third world nation under the Bush administration than a thriving super power. Republican economics do not work:

New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year before to mark the highest point since 1998. And that's even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture Department reported Monday.

The department's annual report on food security showed that during 2007 the number of children who suffered a substantial disruption in the amount of food they typically eat was more than double the 430,000 in 2006 and the largest figure since 716,000 in 1998.

Yes children starve while oil companies receive record profits. This should be a matter of national security. When the people get to the point they have nothing to lose, they start acting like it. Then you end up with civil unrest and then possible revolution.

Senate Republicans block heating aid bill. Yup - the Republicans again feel the poor should suffer. And it isn't a "block", it's a filibuster.

Yes I am lucky. I live about 1.5 miles from the school where Bush signed No Child Left Behind into law. So how is this area's children doing?

Poverty levels are down in Hamilton and Middletown, but figures across the rest of Butler County are not as promising, according to data released Wednesday.

The U.S. Census Bureau released its 2005 estimates for the number of poverty-stricken students. Although Hamilton and Middletown still have more than 20 percent of their student populations living in poverty, they did see a decrease from 2004. Numbers in the county's other seven districts all went up.

Yup the economy here in southwestern Ohio is crap. It seems like we hear news of another business leaving the area on a weekly basis. Of course we have a congressional representative who doesn't care about his district - right Mr. Boehner?