"Census: Downturn not a new picture" by Associated Press | December 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Things really are bad all over - and they had gone bad even before the housing and finance industries crashed and sent the economy into a tailspin.
New census data show that throughout the first half of the decade, the slumping economy touched nearly every community in the country. Incomes dropped, while poverty and unemployment rose in the vast majority of the nation's cities and towns....
No region was spared.... The data, which is being released today, is the first detailed economic, social, and demographic information for small- and medium-sized cities since the 2000 census. It was collected over three years, from 2005 through 2007, providing a mid-decade snapshot of every community with at least 20,000 residents....
In the vast majority of America's cities and towns, economic conditions never reached the prosperity that marked the beginning of the decade.
And that was only prosperity for SOME, folks!
Happens to coincide with Bush's tax cuts for the rich and the Iraq war looting, too?
Imagine that!
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