She Was 12. The president has done some great things . . . .
Poverty rates are way down.
The New York Times, September 27, reporting on Census Bureau report Nearly 19 percent of U.S. children about 13.3 million live in poverty. More than 21 percent of all black people went hungry or lived on the edge of hunger in 1999, the highest percentage of any racial group. A large percentage of Hispanics, 20.8 percent, faced a similar situation. In the depth of the Great Depression, I was listening, late at night, to the radio. Later that year, the man from the finance company would come to take it away.