America's Poor

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The L.A. Times Headline: "Record 46.2 million Americans live in poverty, Census Bureau says"

What the liberal media didn't say about those 46.2 million poor:


"The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau:


* 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning

* Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks

* Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television

* Two-thirds have at least one DVD player and 70 percent have a VCR

* Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers

* More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation

* 43 percent have Internet access

* One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD television

* One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo"

Further:

"As for hunger and homelessness, Rector and Sheffield point to 2009 statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showing that 96 percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they could not afford food, 83 percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and over the course of a year, only 4 percent of poor persons become temporarily homeless, with 42 percent of poor households actually owning their own homes."

cf. Heritage Foundation; U.S. Census Bureau, USDA