{"id":16304,"date":"2012-10-26T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16304"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T18:47:56","slug":"obama-and-america%e2%80%99s-historic-poverty-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16304\/obama-and-america%e2%80%99s-historic-poverty-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and America\u2019s Historic Poverty Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/york-romney-not-obama-shows-concern-for-nations-poor\/article\/2511417#.UIn-lmfhKSo \" target=\"_blank\">Byron York<\/a> says when it comes to talking about America\u2019s historically high poverty rate, \u201cBarack Obama ignores the issue when it comes time to campaign. A sky-high poverty rate doesn&#8217;t fit his theme that things are getting better. So he doesn&#8217;t talk about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut the problem is still there. According to the Census Bureau, the poverty rate has gone from 12.5 percent in 2007 to 13.2 percent in 2008 to 14.3 percent in 2009 to 15.1 percent in 2010 to 15.0 percent in 2011. The last time it was higher than 15.1 percent was in 1965, when the nation&#8217;s anti-poverty programs were just taking effect.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For all his <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/09\/06\/speech-excerpts-obama-promises-leadership-similar-to-fdr\/\" target=\"_blank\">pretensions<\/a> about being the next FDR, it looks like President Obama\u2019s tenure could signal the death knell for LBJ\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/in-ohio-ryan-takes-on-poverty-topic-obama-largely-avoids\/article\/2511634#.UIhI4mfz41C?utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=culturewatch \" target=\"_blank\">expensive and failed<\/a> Great Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron York says when it comes to talking about America\u2019s historically high poverty rate, \u201cBarack Obama ignores the issue when it comes time to campaign. A sky-high poverty rate doesn&#8217;t fit his theme that things are getting better. So he doesn&#8217;t talk about it.&#8221; \u201cBut the problem is still there. According to the Census Bureau, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1193,330,2047,597,160,3116,2098,1286],"class_list":["post-16304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-fdr","tag-great-society","tag-lbj","tag-mitt-romney","tag-opportunity","tag-poverty","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16309,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16304\/revisions\/16309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}