Cut the cake any way you want, for the better part of 50 years government programs have been implemented and in spite of the literally hundreds of leftist programs, billions dumped into it, and countless man hours spent, the poverty situation has not changed for Blacks and only a fool would believe another big government leftist program will fix the situation. Wow, good argument, if only there were any data to explore how much of it is ********* Oh wait...
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/historical/hstpov2.xls
For "Black Only" as race, all numbers in thousands. Yeah cutting the rate from over 50% to 22.5% at the end of Clinton's second term was clearly a massive failure. Nothing is more amusing that you morons making an assumed argument that there's public data for.
Year Pop Poor Rate
2011...... 39,609 10,929 27.6
2010 17/.. 39,283 10,746 27.4
2009...... 38,556 9,944 25.8
2008...... 37,966 9,379 24.7
2007...... 37,665 9,237 24.5
2006...... 37,306 9,048 24.3
2005...... 36,802 9,168 24.9
2004 14/.. 36,426 9,014 24.7
2003...... 35,989 8,781 24.4
2002...... 35,678 8,602 24.1
2001...... 35,871 8,136 22.7
2000 12/.. 35,425 7,982 22.5
1999 11/.. 35,756 8,441 23.6
1998...... 34,877 9,091 26.1
1997...... 34,458 9,116 26.5
1996...... 34,110 9,694 28.4
1995...... 33,740 9,872 29.3
1994...... 33,353 10,196 30.6
1993 10/.. 32,910 10,877 33.1
1992 9/... 32,411 10,827 33.4
1991 8/... 31,313 10,242 32.7
1990...... 30,806 9,837 31.9
1989...... 30,332 9,302 30.7
1988...... 29,849 9,356 31.3
1987 7/... 29,362 9,520 32.4
1986...... 28,871 8,983 31.1
1985 ..... 28,485 8,926 31.3
1984...... 28,087 9,490 33.8
1983 6/... 27,678 9,882 35.7
1982...... 27,216 9,697 35.6
1981 5/... 26,834 9,173 34.2
1980...... 26,408 8,579 32.5
1979 4/... 25,944 8,050 31.0
1978...... 24,956 7,625 30.6
1977...... 24,710 7,726 31.3
1976...... 24,399 7,595 31.1
1975...... 24,089 7,545 31.3
1974 3/... 23,699 7,182 30.3
1973...... 23,512 7,388 31.4
1972...... 23,144 7,710 33.3
1971 2/... 22,784 7,396 32.5
1970...... 22,515 7,548 33.5
1969...... 22,011 7,095 32.2
1968...... 21,944 7,616 34.7
1967 1/... 21,590 8,486 39.3
1966...... 21,206 8,867 41.8
1959...... 18,013 9,927 55.1