The Mutha Freaken New York Times!!!

The United States for the last nine years has been in a war with Iraq, Afghanistan and maybe some other Middle Eastern countries. During the war the U.S has been in tremendous trouble because of it. It has caused so much debt to the U.S and put many people out of their jobs and houses, Businesses had trouble keeping the business going and many people were living in poverty. This Poverty in the U.S is said to be one of the worst crisis's since the Great Depression.

The Recent New York Times says that the "Poverty Rate Rose Sharply In 2009, says Senses Bureau". Its says that 4 million Americans found or one in seven people found themselves living in poverty in 2009, and the million that weren't in poverty by expanded unemployment and other assistants. The rate of the poverty reached its highest since 1994. People have started living with family or even friends or some people find roommates (roommates, more then one) to live with. All people have been effected by this, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics and everyone in between, but what have they been doing to survive and how is the Government going to fix the dramatic increase? The New York Times also says that Government benefits like food stamps and tax credits, which can provide hundreds or even thousands of dollars in extra income, are not included in calculating whether a family’s income falls above or below the poverty line, but raises the cost in housing, medical care and energy without considering large regional differences of all of the raises in cost. To help this situation the Federal Government will issue an alternate calculations next year that will include important non cash and after-tax income and also account for regional differences in the cost of living.

To me this means that there are no jobs, not nearly as much housing or money to go around for all the people in the world. The Depression was long but America made sacrifices and got through it, but I'm not sure that with the way the world is today no one will work together to get out this poverty. Hopefully the Government comes up with ideas and works together if not everyone is going to be savages in the streets. RAWR.