Your track record from Reagan onward has given us something to think about ... just one Thanksgiving away from a general election.
Government surveys analyzed by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicate that in 2010, just over half of the country’s nearly 17 million poor children, lived in households that reported at least one of four major hardships: hunger, overcrowding, failure to pay the rent or mortgage on time or failure to seek needed medical care. A good education is also increasingly out of reach. A study by Martha Bailey, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, showed that the difference in college-graduation rates between the rich and poor has widened by more than 50 percent since the 1990s. ...NYT
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And let's not forget what good old American industry and marketing can do for you on this Thanksgiving day. After all, the private sector is inventive, industrious, and profit-driven.
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Might as well get this info in line here -- another gift from the Republican party.
The average Bush tax cut in 2011 for a taxpayer in the richest one percent is greater than the average income of the other 99 percent ($66,384 compared to $58,506). ...Citizens for Tax Justice/National Priorities Project
