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Will the Chicago teachers ultimately be betrayed?
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I am guilty of committing at least some of these sins of the writing "craft," but then nobody is actually paying much for this blog.
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There is NO "recovery" if millions of Americans are living in poverty and many, many millions more are close to it:

The report revealed that the ranks of those classified by the government as poor remained at record highs in 2011, while the gap between rich and poor widened further. Some 46.2 million people remained below the official poverty line in 2011, the highest number in more than half a century. The 15.0 percent poverty rate, essentially unchanged from 2010, was the highest since 1983.

The impact of poverty is particularly devastating for the young. One in five American children was poor in 2011. The poverty rate of young adults age 25-34 living with their parents, based on their own income alone, was 43.7 percent.

All of these figures grossly underestimate the real level of poverty, since the government’s poverty threshold, set at an annual income of $23,021 for a family of four, is absurdly low.

That income level is poverty level for a single person, let alone a family.