For the 7th straight year, hunger in America has increased, especially among kids. In this particular race to the bottom (brought to you by Bush), Colorado and New Hampshire are leading the pack.
Colorado experienced the nation’s largest rate of growth in impoverished children from 2000 to 2006, according to a study released Tuesday.
The study, by the Colorado Children’s Campaign, a nonprofit group that focuses on child welfare, said that the most recent census data show that 180,000 children — 15.7 percent of the state total — were living in poverty in Colorado in 2006, a 73 percent increase since 2000.
New Hampshire and Delaware experienced the second- and third-largest rates of increase in child poverty, about 47 percent and 45 percent respectively.
George must be so proud. This is what he's been aiming at all this time and, once again, he has succeeded. We are going to decrease the surplus population.
“What the data is telling us is that we’re headed in the wrong direction in terms of taking care of our lower-income population,” the president of the Colorado Children’s Campaign, Megan Ferland, said.
Jeez, yah think?
At a news conference on Tuesday, Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. called the statistics “awful” and said that “they clearly demonstrate that we have a responsibility to people who live on the margins.”
“It’s intolerable that 180,000 children are living in poverty in this state,” said Mr. Ritter, a Democrat who took office last year.
Aw, Bill. The Pubs who came before you didn't think so. They understood the concept of how govt "enables" lazy kids by making sure they have food. Then they get "dependent" on tax money.
That's...baaaaaad. Much worse than merely starving to death.
In a supplemental document, the Colorado Children’s Campaign said the state spent less per capita on its residents than its neighbors to the north and south, Wyoming and New Mexico. Those states experienced a decrease in child poverty during the same six years as the study.
This is, naturally, a false correlation since, as we've all been told by conservatives for 30 years, throwing money at a problem doesn't solve it.
Except when it does, of course.
“This report and this finding validate a lot of what we largely know, in that Colorado continues to lag behind in key areas of public investment,” an institute spokesman, Scott Downes, said. “That prevents us from creating the kind of future that we want for our communities, our children and generations to come.”
Mr. Downes attributed the situation in part to a “knot of fiscal restraints” like a 1992 constitutional amendment, the Tax Payer’s Bill of Rights, that was intended to restrain state spending.
Well, it did restrain state spending. On starving kids. But fiscal restraint is fiscal restraint, and you know, eggs..omelets..,.etc. Somebody has to win and somebody has to lose and as long as the loser ain't me I don't care who it is.
- Social Darwinism 101 (by Newt Gingrich and James Inhofe)
And so on.
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