He always was a compassionate person. The US suburbs have often been swing vote areas and now they are increasingly where poverty is growing. It should be interesting to see how people react to being called a bum by the new Gingrich pitch. Since the unemployment problem was launched during the Bush years there's little question about who created this problem of poverty. The poverty numbers spiked during the GOP years so outside of the Teabaggers, who really believes the Democrats are the party of food stamps over work when they lost their work because of GOP economics?
And remember, the GOP is preparing to roll back the Wall Street reforms. Just how serious is the GOP about promoting jobs when they're ready to trigger the next financial collapse? If anything, their policies will cause even more poverty and the need for more welfare.
The analyses of census data released Thursday show that since 2000, the number of poor people in the suburbs jumped by 37.4 percent to 13.7 million.
That's faster than the national growth rate of 26.5 percent and more than double the city rate of 16.7 percent.
After the recession began in 2007, the suburbs continued to post larger increases in the number of poor - adding 1.8 million, compared to 1.4 million in the cities.
Suburbs are now home to roughly one-third of the nation's poor.
