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:: 11.03.2003 ::
"Last year alone, another 1.7 million Americans slipped below the poverty line, bringing the total to 34.6 million, one in eight of the population. Over 13 million of them are children. In fact, the US has the worst child poverty rate and the worst life expectancy of all the world's industrialised countries, and the plight of its poor is worsening." And we're supposed to believe that fanatical Muslims attacked us because they were jealous of our prosperity? Well, I guess Bush solved that problem. From the first in a 3-part Guardian series on the state of the US. Link thanks to InformationClearingHouse.com.
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