{"id":997,"date":"2010-03-25T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=435"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:58:14","slug":"and-if-all-this-isnt-bad-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"And if all this isn’t bad enough…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in Atlanta, Georgia, to look at urban poverty issues… Today we attended a presentation by Kevin Moran, a long-time social justice advocate. \u00a0 He, tongue in cheek, said the following were some Atlanta “Chamber of Commerce” figures. \u00a0 For instance, the fastest growing group of homeless people in Atlanta are: children under the age of nine. \u00a0 And Atlanta is the poorest city in the country for children. \u00a0 As an example, 48% of the children in Atlanta living below the poverty level — live in families with annual incomes of less than $15,000 a year. \u00a0 Moran also noted that the minimum wage in Georgia is $5.85 and hour, which yields $12,168 a year, before taxes. \u00a0 He said juxtapose this against the average two-bedroom apartment in the city, which would rent for $834 a month. \u00a0 Moran said when you do the math, you’d have to earn $16 an hour to afford one of these average apartments. \u00a0 Translated, all kinds of people here are living in tremendously substandard housing, or on the streets. \u00a0 Moran also noted that 40% of the homeless here are veterans. \u00a0 And if all this isn’t bad enough, Moran noted that the Georgia governor has recently proposed a 3% cut to social services statewide in order to work toward a balanced budget. \u00a0 Moran went to the capitol building, with a group of others yesterday, to adamantly protest this move. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> Moran added that although we’re the wealthiest nation in the world, we have a wider gap between rich and poor than any other country. Note 2: \u00a0 A man in the audience said he grew up Black in one of the poorer areas of Atlanta. \u00a0 He said the only way out of his neighborhood for many kids was joining the military. \u00a0 So basically, he said, to escape the poverty cycle he had to get involved with killing, or be killed himself. \u00a0 He, ultimately, was sent on a tour of duty: to Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re in Atlanta, Georgia, to look at urban poverty issues… Today we attended a presentation by Kevin Moran, a long-time social justice advocate. \u00a0 He, tongue in cheek, said the following were some Atlanta “Chamber of Commerce” figures. \u00a0 For …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}