Congratulations!

[nitro]

"A new report on child welfare that found more U.S. children living in poverty than before the Great Recession belies the fanfare of the nation's economic turnaround..."

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/child-poverty-rises-since-recession-report-says.html

 

[Tsing Tao]

Yes, excellent job Mr. President. Well done, Congress. But hey - stocks at all time highs, and bankers are richer than ever. The Federal Reserve for the win!

 

[Fractals 'R Us]

Democrats set out to cure poverty under LBJ. So full of shit they are nowadays after everything they stood for for six decades is a complete failure... oh wait, sex addicted perverts can get married! I forgot about that one...

 

[MoreLeverage]

If only we could have raised taxes and spent twice as much on government waste, surely we would have succeeded!

 

[nitro]

No room at the inn for innocence

"SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The children gather at dusk on the pitted motel parking lot, hard against the sound wall of the freeway. They kick a scuffed soccer ball and play with the stray dogs they have rescued. One holds a cockroach he pretends is a pet turtle.

Eddie Martinez, 14, rides his bike among them, happy they are back from school. Since he quit going to class several months before, he spends his days sitting on the breezeway at the top of the stairs waiting for them.

In the dim light and freeway exhaust of San Bernardino's Country Inn, he has friends and a piece of a normal childhood.

The problem of children growing up without a secure place to call home is growing worse nationwide.

In 2013, an estimated 2.5 million children lived in run-down motels, cars and shelters, on friends' and relatives' couches and on the streets, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness, a nonprofit research institute. That was up 8 percent from 2012 and 67 percent from 2006..."


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no-room-at-the-inn-for-innocence/ar-AAdvhoS