A new Census Bureau report establishes that poverty increased over the course of the Biden administration. The data is yet another rebuke to the politicians and commentators who insisted economic conditions under Joe Biden were great.
I mean yes. And it’s gotten even worse under Trump too. Biden was an old establishment fuck, expecting him to do anything of value other then just blissfully shut the fuck up was delulu.
This is not news. It is known by anyone with fucking eyes.
It would be just as accurate to say poverty has gotten worse since before Obama was president and it would still be correct.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. The orange utan is working hard to turn worsening poverty into a raging depression.
And we’ll probably never see it because they’ll just stop releasing the statistics
When the depression hits, people won’t need no statistics to figure out they’re in a depression.
Of course we can fully believe information pushed by the current Tylenol=Autism administration too. Not to say everyone did great then, but I’d bet that the next report will show MASSIVE growth and prosperity (for the 0.001%) to claim we’re all great again.
Edit: also notable, the article cited how it got so much worse after 2022, guess what also happened then?
https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2022:_U.S._Congress
Of course we can fully believe information pushed by the current Tylenol=Autism administration too.
I generally agree that anything coming out of this administration should be viewed with extreme skepticism, but there’s independent reporting from 2022 and 23 that backs this up
https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-poverty-rate-jumped-2022-child-poverty-doubled/story?id=103130527 (arc)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/child-poverty-biden-tax-credit-b2410185.html (arc)
I’d bet that the next report will show MASSIVE growth and prosperity (for the 0.001%) to claim we’re all great again.
Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me at all, and I also wouldn’t put just straight up fabricating data past them. The whole Republican is completely without any ethical restraints in basically every way and a huge existential threat to the country.
got so much worse after 2022, guess what also happened then?
Moderates pissed away a winnable election to the fascists by ending stimulus checks, ignoring the importance of putting criminal Republicans in prison, and focusing only on how they could give taxpayer money to wealthy for profit businesses like computer chip manufacturers and the like. They had the votes in 20-22 to lock in the expanded child tax credits and other pandemic era aid programs, but instead they focused on helping wealthy companies first and tried to tell voters that we had to re-elect them or those child tax credits would go away. The problem is, voters at this point understand both parties are completely full of shit and just lie their asses off while campaigning, so they only care about what you actually do and not so much about what you say you’ll do. They will vote for the incumbent if they like it or the opposition party if they don’t, even if every available bit of evidence says the opposition party will make things worse. And nothing about any of that should have been a surprise to professional politicians, but they decided to do what they did anyway, and now here we are.
Doesn’t matter the party, uncontrolled capitalism has fucked America and large parts of the world
Both parties are puppets for billionaires. Some of them might be different billionaires, but they’re still making their puppets dance, and none of them give a fuck about the working class. Some of them just have a better working-class PR game and do a really great sales job. It varies which is which. The point is, you can’t trust either of them, neither of them are the answer, and their ideas for the economy and the country are never actually designed to help you, although they might occasionally help by accident don’t interpret that as one being genuinely better than the other. The game is rigged on both sides. Picking the less rigged side, even if you’re right, is not a winning strategy, it’s just losing slower.
Sad thing is, all of this was easily avoidable. You only needed to prioritize the needs of the general population and tell the rich to fuck off. But noooooo, the billionaires need more money. So here we are, in an economic depression because no one has money for anything, not even basic needs. Millions upon millions of ghost jobs and stagnant wages.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Both Republicans and Democrats want it that way.
As a percentage of the population, overall poverty stayed the same from 2023 to 2024 (12.9%), while child poverty fell slightly (from 13.7% to 13.4%).
Except Biden’s term didn’t start in 2023
(It didn’t start in 2019 either, but starting in 2020 would be unfair I guess because apparently the only way Anerica can do the stimulus checks and expanded benefits that brought these things down that year is if there’s a literal once in a century natural disaster and if we let a Republican president sign it so their extremely fragile egos don’t get hurt)
I think there needs to be an demarcation between “Official” verifiable numbers put out by an independent body and “Trumpficial” numbers put out by an agency with a Trump-appointed leader and lacking transparency and verifiability.
Without independent verification at this juncture in history, I don’t believe a single thing that comes out of this administration. And if you’re going to have a whole-ass news article about something that comes from this administration it had better have clear, solid provenance or I’m not reading past the headline.
If you believe any data coming out of the Trump administration, I’ve got a bridge to sell you, fash.
What country didn’t during that time period?
Man the libs of .world are mad that studies show that their favorite team also doesn’t care about them.
Edit: downvoting me, just like the downvoting the post, doesn’t make them care about you. Just like actual voting.
