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Old 03-19-2006, 08:00 AM   #9 (permalink)
Marvelous Marv
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Originally Posted by tecoyah
I recommend you visit the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station , TX.

"Only Brownsville, TX with a poverty rate of 44% has a higher poverty rate among cities with populations over 50,000 than College Station .Others in the "top five" were College Station with 38%; Monroe, LA with 37.8%; Laredo, TX with 37.3%; and Camden, NJ with 36.6%. Detroit had the highest rate among large U.S. cities with 32.4% followed by Chicago with 21.6%. Current poverty levels are defined by the federal government to be $6,652/yr for one person, $8,509/yr for a family of two, $10,419/yr for a family of three, and $13,359/yr for a family of four."


http://www.rtis.com/reg/bcs/pol/touc...96/poverty.htm
Uhh, aren't you the guy who told me that in discussions of George W. Bush, when I brought up Clinton's offenses, it was a "tired old strategy?"
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