Red states are the poverty states

FYI, Obama does not run the Fed.

 

Why didn't Obama end it?

 

It's been a problem for way too long, frankly I am sick of red state leaches. Let's hope trump can make them great for once.

 

The GOP controls congress

 

Because Obama vetoes anything they attempt to do. That's why the nation rejected democrats in the presidency, the house, the senate and the SCOTUS picks.
Yes there are always poor people, Bill Clinton made them a lot poorer and Obama never fixed it. Don't worry though, that's why we canned democrats and replaced them with people that will do a better job.

 

Show me a veto that affected red states.....oh and you skipped the shrub. Lol

 

yeah and? Bill Clinton made the trade policy long before the GOP took control. Plus kinda hard to get anything done in congress when the failure in the white house wont work with them.

 

Poor shrub.....he was just helpless. Lol

 

The keystone pipeline. Not sure what skipped the shrub means. Can you translate from leftist slang to proper English? Thanks

 

Maybe because he forced them to take down some Ten Commandments plaques and teach that humans descended from monkeys....

 

Interesting concept. You are a democrat right?

 

Humans are Apes....Great Apes actually.

AA

 

Mississippi
Poverty rate: 24.1%

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with 695,915 people living below the poverty line. It also ranks last in its rate of child poverty (33.7%), and next to last in hunger and food insecurity. Mississippi — along with Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina — has no state minimum wage, but the unemployed are largely covered by state welfare programs

Louisiana
Poverty rate: 19.8%

Louisiana is the most unequal state in the country in terms of its gender wage gap: women earned just 66% of what men earned in 2013. Louisiana is also the third most unequal state overall: in 2013, the share of income going to the top 20% of households in Louisiana was 18.5 times that going to the bottom 20%. Its unemployment rate, however, is fairly low, at 6.2%.

Georgia
Poverty rate: 19%

Almost two million Georgians currently live below the poverty line, and 21% of residents ages 18 to 24 were not in school or working as of 2012. Benefits are scarce: 84% of unemployed workers in Georgia do not receive any kind of unemployment insurance — even as poverty is soaring, fewer than 4,000 adults in Georgia receive welfare.

Kentucky
Poverty rate: 18.8%

At just over 8%, Kentucky's unemployment rate is one of the highest in the country. The eastern Kentucky counties of Clay, Jackson, Lee, and Leslie have fared particularly poorly: the unemployment rate in Clay County is 12.7% and only 7.4% of the population has a bachelor’s degree or higher, The New York Times reported.

Alabama
Poverty rate: 18.7%

More than one in four children live in poverty in this rural Southern state. From 2011 to 2013, 16.7% of Alabama households were food insecure, meaning they struggled to provide enough food for their families. Nearly one million Alabamians were dependent on food stamps in 2013, the Montgomery Advertiser reported.

Arizona
Poverty rate: 18.6%

Much like Georgia, the percentage of unemployed Arizonians receiving welfare from the state is very low. As of 2012, almost one in five young people ages 18-24 were neither in school nor working. Despite Arizona's high rate of poverty and unemployment, only 6.7% of unemployed workers in Arizona were helped by unemployment insurance in 2013.

South Carolina
Poverty rate: 18.6%

South Carolina has one of the highest rates of child poverty in the country, with 27.3% of children living below the poverty line in 2013. South Carolina's median household income was $23,906 in 2012, and it was even less for African Americans ($15,39 and Hispanics ($13,681), according to the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs office.

West Virginia

Poverty rate: 18.5%

West Virginia has traditionally relied on its mining industry for jobs and growth. But as mining jobs become increasingly scarce, West Virginians — many of whom never obtained a college degree — are finding themselves stuck. Only 31.3% of young adults ages 25 to 34 had an associate's degree or higher as of 2012, and women earn far less than men. In 2013, women’s median earnings were 69% those of men.

 

I tend to vote democratic, but not always.

 

It's bush the younger....what a helpless little boy

 

Have you considered moving to the Peoples Paradise of Cuba? Or Venezuela? You'd like it there!

If I wanted to live in third-world conditions, I could just move to any number of red states under the control of the Plutocratic People's Socialist Party.

 

You didn't ask me about Bush. Hes an idiot that failed our nation as well. That's why his brother got his ass handed to him. now onto the pipeline. Obama vetoed that and killed jobs in those red states did he not?

 

Which state is a third world condition in your opinion?

 

He's a GOP idiot. Lots of good company. Pipeline did not kill one job except maybe building it and those are temporary. Look the GOP has destroyed those states with their policies. No one can bring them back but them. They better get smart and soon

 

Sorry to break your bubble, but California has more people in poverty than many states have people--specifically they have about 9M people below the poverty line. Arkansas and Mississippi have less than 3M total people each

 

Duh. They have the highest population. Hilarious. Listen. Learn. PER CAPITA. Lol

 

yeah because once you build a transcontinental pipeline its a set it and forget it infrastructure that doesn't require any maintenance similar to bridges and railroads and roads that never need jobs to maintain them. You are correct, it didn't kill a single job........

 

The OP said "6 states with the most people in poverty". The OP is factually incorrect. I was responding to that incorrect assertion. Reading comprehension is never passé. I am surprised nobody ever taught you that.

 

Maintenance would bring back Mississippi? Now that is hilarious! Thank you!

 

No source?

I guess you don't know that Obama moved us from the standard Poverty Rate formula to the Supplemental Poverty Measure. Using that formula, California, DC and Nevada are the three top poverty states. Hardly the red state consensus that you claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate