I disagree with your asessment of the income gap being smoke-screened. Most real studies done show malnutrition, poor healthcare, poor housing, and definitely poor transportation for those in the lower income brackets in the USA. I say real studies because the media can really water them down.
I think you are trying to start a fight by saying there is no real poverty here. That is interesting. Interesting but, by the numbers, no heart involved, wrong.
For a complete list of studies...
2006-10-16 09:02:29
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answered by RJ 3
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That's the point knuckle dragger because of that disparity people can't afford those things you list. I already had to drop my health insurance because they raised it another 12% this year. Everybodies raising there costs but my wages stay about the same. I don't know where I'll spend my .50 cent raise. If you counted material well being I'm not doing great either my car is 10 years old,I don't own a computer I use the one in a library,my apartment is not bad but at 850.00 a month it better be. My TV is 8 years old and in two years I will have to convert to digital because analog will be off the air. I have basic satellite. In short things suck bad because my boss and his investors won't put more of the corporate earnings into paying us people who actually bring in the money.
2006-10-16 16:09:45
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answered by brian L 6
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You comment has nothing to do with your question. Your question is about the "income gap". If you don't think the income gap has changed in the past several years you must smoking something. Yes the poor in America today are better off materially than they were 6 years ago, but the rich who used to be millionaires are now billionaires, and the upper middle class are now millionaires.
2006-10-16 16:05:14
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answered by rec 3
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When Clinton was in office, I had much more disposible income. I bought a fur (I know, I didn't need one, but I could afford one) I went to Europe twice, now, I m lucky if I can afford to take 2 days off! I am paying the taxes of Bush's rich friends & everyone who pays less taxes that I do is also paying. It stinks!
If Hillary uses some of her husbands ideas, it will take at least 2 terms to get us out of the debt Bush has put us in...
2006-10-16 16:07:30
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answered by fairly smart 7
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I think the income gap, the shrinking of the middle class and the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands is a huge issue separate from the poverty issue.
2006-10-16 16:01:13
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answered by Anonymous
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No smokescreening my friend.
Everyone I know (except for on yahoo answers) agrees with me that we had more money when Clinton was in office. He also stressed social programs more such as healthcare.
And nowadays healthcare, medicare, and social security, among funding for many charity organizations, may go extinct fairly soon.
2006-10-16 16:00:41
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answered by Anonymous
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