See Lou Hindery's piece at HuffPost: "Who's Really Poor in America?" Snippets:
Hunger in America is now at an all-time high, and there are currently entire national geographic regions - the very large 15-state 'South' being one of them - where more than half of all public school students are poor and ill-fed.
30% of the nation's 50 million homeowners own a home whose value is below its mortgage balance, and this number could rise to an almost unbelievable 50% by year-end 2011. It would cost about $745 billion, more than the size of the original 2008 bank bailout, to restore these borrowers to the point where they were breaking even, which there is no obvious political will to find right now.
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