{"id":8660,"date":"2011-09-14T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2011-09-14T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:00:35","slug":"welcome-to-george-bushs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/news-to-make-you-blue\/09\/14\/welcome-to-george-bushs-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To George Bush&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/regions\/americas\/united-states\/110914\/poverty-us-census-incomes\">GlobalPost<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly 1 in 6 Americans were living in poverty last year \u2014 46.2 million, the highest number since poverty levels were first published 52 years ago, the U.S. government reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 15.1 percent of the population living in poverty, up from 14.3 percent in 2009, and 11.7 percent at the beginning of the decade in 2001, according to Census Bureau figures cited by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>And 2010 was the third consecutive year the poverty rate for all Americans had risen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Economy? We don&#8217;t need no stinking economy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of GlobalPost: Nearly 1 in 6 Americans were living in poverty last year \u2014 46.2 million, the highest number since poverty levels were first published 52 years ago, the U.S. government reported Tuesday. 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