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taikonauts, open, dan savage, alt. country, online business, extended play, dan sroka, blaxploitation, handheld, stars, stone cold, e voting, naming, referals, gawker,
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reading the report, I thought it was interesting that the increase in poverty, both in the rate and the real numbers, was confined to a fairly small area shop of the country. You don't find that curious?What is very interesting is that this increase occurred in a year when GDP figures indicate healthy economic growthI agree, and I think shop my comment above gives us some more food for shop thought on the matter. Poverty is only loosely linked with GDP, and the linkage is through employment. I'm sure you're aware that past recoveries saw a decrease in unemployment that fairly quickly followed the increase in GDP, but that this recovery is different. The difference suggests a considerable structural change in the US economy, and the fact that there is a concurrent change to the geographic distribution of poverty could well be significant. There are some things that the states on the list have in common such as the fact that most are rust-belt states.
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