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More poor and less compassionate

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2008-11-20
| El Diario NY

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Children should be treated as a national treasure. They represent the future of our country and, in a very practical sense, a presidency can be measured against how well our children have fared during an administration. By that measure, George W. Bush has been a failure.

Since President Bush first took office to 2007, the number of children living in poverty in the United States has increased by 1.7 million, according to the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF). The increase brought the total number of children living in poverty to more than 13 million. In other words, one out of every four children in the wealthiest country in the world now lives in poverty.

There was also an increase in the total number of children living in extreme poverty. (Extreme poverty is defined as a family of four living on less than $10,100 a year.) According to the CDF, Latino children have fared the worst—547,000 more Hispanic children are living in extreme poverty today than at the beginning of Bush coming into power.

Of course, this outgoing administration did not invent poverty in the United States. But a look at the administration of Bush’s predecessor can give us some healthy perspective: The CDF reports that from 1992 to 2000, under Bill Clinton, the number of children living in poverty fell by more than 3.7 million.

Bush ran his first presidential campaign promising to be a “compassionate conservative.” But his administration has chosen to invest our country’s resources in funding the war in Iraq and in giving tax cuts to the most wealthy, while cutting programs aimed at combating poverty. The result is a far poorer and less compassionate nation.

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