Report: Child poverty rate hits 20 percent in US as families struggle - CSMonitor.com

when you read a story like this, what do you think of?

Report: Child poverty rate hits 20 percent in US as families struggle - CSMonitor.com: "There has been a 'significant decline' in economic well-being for low-income children and families over the past decade as the official child poverty rate grew by 18 percent and poverty levels for families with children increased in 38 states, according to a new study."

yet when the underclass revolts and goes on the rampage, we forget about the miserable existence we've consigned the millions of out-of-sight, out-of-mind impoverished people, whose plight never seems to warrant any particular response.

then, of course, the economic powers whose decisions dictate who will prosper and who will suffer instruct those who aren't yet suffering to fear the poor, adopt a stance of intolerance against their "lawlessness" and give up yet more of their freedoms to safeguard the corrupt status quo.

welcome to the advanced societies of the west.