Crisis and poverty in the USA

Giving the lie to claims by the Obama administration and the media that an economic recovery is under way in the United States, major employers announced tens of thousands of new job cuts this week: here.

This video is called USA: Millions of Americans trapped in poverty.

According to the National Poverty Center, the number of households in the US living in extreme poverty—less than $2 a day per person—has increased by 130 percent since 1996: here.

Millions of U.S. children live in poverty: here.