Mouood Mouood English Edition
Most Americans don’t earn enough to live on. Things go from bad to worse. Hardwired inequality is deepening. Casino capitalism takes precedence. America’s criminal rich elite casino capitalist elites class alone benefits. Ordinary people are swindled. Venal politicians serve wealth, power and privilege. Democrats and Republicans are in lockstep. Only the rich casino capitalists benefit at the expense of most others.
It’s harder than ever for millions of disadvantaged households to survive. Their numbers keep growing exponentially. Vital social protections are eroding. It’s happening when they’re most needed.
“By race, nonwhites still have a higher risk of being economically insecure, at 90 percent.”
”But compared with the official poverty rate, some of the biggest jumps under the newer measure are among whites, with more than 76 percent enduring periods of joblessness, life on welfare or near-poverty.”
On July 28, 2013, Associated Press headlined “Exclusive: Signs of Declining Economic Security,” saying:
“Four out of 5 US adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives. It’s a disturbing “sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.”
”By 2030, based on the current trend of widening income inequality, close to 85 percent of all working-age adults in the US will experience bouts of economic insecurity.”
“Just 45 percent say their family will have a good chance of improving their economic position based on the way things are in America,”said Associated Press.
Recent opinion polls show over 80% of Americans mostly don’t trust government. Congress’ approval rating is 11%.
It’s barely above its all-time February and August 2012 10% low. Given the margin of error, they’re’s virtually no difference between then and now.
Americans are suffering. Things go from bad to worse. Republicans and Democrats in the parliament are cutting social protections for people when they are most needed.
The Homeless in America
On any given night in January 2012, 633,782 people are homeless in the U.S, 394,379 as individuals(62%) and 239,403 as families(38%) 62,619 were war veterans (10%)
–With 6,371 homeless war veterans in Los Angeles alone 99,894 people are chronically homeless(16%)
[Chronic homelessness= being homeless for more than a year. Or having four episodes of homelessness is 3 years, and a disability.]With 5 states accounting for nearly half the homeless population:
California (20.7%)
New York (11%)
Florida (8.7%)
Texas (5.4%)
Georgia (3.2%)
