Like Barbari Ann stated, the people at large may be the root cause of the problem, as Robert with his Marxist comment has reiterated.   The really poor people have always made up a sizeable portion of the American population. Think native Americans and slaves in centuries past. The real tragedy is the big portion of the middle class that will move out of the middle class. Maybe they will not be as poor as those depicted in the article, but there will be more of them and their loss of spending power will hurt the economy more. The extremely poor do not buy automobiles and other high tech devices that are a huge proportion of our remaining manufacturing capability. Most of those poor people pictured don't look like they can repair our crumbling infrastructure either.   When you shift from being a nation of entrepreneurs to a nation of overpaid union employees, you just might eventually find yourself unemployed. If you are not an employee, then it stands to reason you can't be unemployed. There is usually work available, it just might not be available to "employees".

It's because everything Obama comes up with to fix it,the republi-tards fillibuster it without even looking at it.Like Cheney said,"Let's make sure Obama is a 1 term deal."The republicans must really hate their own people when they don't get what they want.

Demo(n)cracy is tyranny of the masses. People are misled to believe a majority of people can straighten things out at the voting booths. The majority of people are the actual problem. You base your life on immutable laws, not what a majority thinks.   The present poverty has a good result for the globalists. Many of the young will keep joining their military to get out of  poverty. When a high percentage of people are kept below the poverty level, you will have all the cannon fodder you need when you need it. Soldiers for the Empire.   As always, it will be the few that effectively take charge that not only guide their lives, but the lives of others. Is it not true that those in the food line are basically clueless people that failed to master themselves?

Let's face it. Democracy has completely lost its meaning. The democratic election process is nothing more than a mediocracy and that is what we have running governments - the proof is screaming at this that are awake by way of the jobless figures, high medical, a deteriating environment, and sensless wars.
Paradism is a new solution where everybody wins including our environment and it is a workable concept that is making good sense now by the day. See http://www.paradism. org/
The people of America and the world deserve nothing less.

Nice made up sources RT. Try again with facts

Good observation RT...While Obama & Boehner are screaming at each other about 'jobs',they don't bother to look out the window to look at the cesspool in their backyard...frustrati ng....How are these guys going to fix America if they can't fix their own city? 

hell no, it has to be more like 60 %... just look at the food banks or people using foodatamps. look at who is shopping in the resale shops. times are changing and not for the better.

I'd be willing to make a bet the number is much higher than that.