Oregon's huge increase in people living in high-poverty areas one of nation's most extreme

Oregon experienced one of the nation's most severe increases in people living in areas of concentrated poverty during the first decade of this century, according to a new Census Bureau study of living situations in 2000 and 2010. It was one of just four states -- all in the South except Oregon -- where the share of people living in census tracts with a high share of impoverished residents shot up more than 15 percentage points over that period. Time For New Leadership!
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Poverty in Oregon food stamps, welfare, Medicaid reliance by county

Nearly five years after the Great Recession officially ended, more than one in five Oregonians continues to rely on food stamps, and nearly 17 percent live in poverty. Rural Oregon counties continue to fare the worst, with food stamps and Medicaid rates exceeding 30 percent in Jefferson and Josephine counties. In some timber-reliant counties, the poverty rate exceeds 20 percent. The Oregonian mapped state and county unemployment, poverty, food stamps, welfare and Medicaid rates using January 2014 numbers from the Oregon Department of Human Services. The figures show slight improvements from last summer, when The Oregonian last mapped poverty by county. But it's clear that the state continues to struggle and that rural Oregon continues to be left behind in the recovery.
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A Graphic View of Poverty in Oregon!

Poverty continues to engulf too many Oregonians, and the latest data show things aren't getting any better. The Great Recession officially ended in June of 2009. Unfortunately, after more than two years of anemic economic recovery, poverty in Oregon was still worse in 2012 than at the depth of that recession. -OCPP Oreon Center for Public Policy because Facts Matter!
Last Friday Wall Street Journal editor James Taranto tackled head on several of the feminist 'myths' about children and poverty. Pointing out how children in the care of their fathers are less likely to end up on welfare roles.
Nearly 100 years ago in correspondence to friends Albert Einstein complained of being alienated from his children by his estranged wife. Kids need both parents; past, present and future.
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