Is "Poverty Plague" Propaganda?

Edwards’s poverty “plague” examined by Robert Rector

The Census Bureau...report will show, as it has in recent years that around 37 million people live in official poverty. Presidential candidate John Edwards, who hopes to lead the nation in a new crusade against poverty, will, no doubt, seek to reap much publicity from the report. In the past, Edwards has claimed that poverty in America is a “plague” which forces 37 million Americans to live in “terrible” circumstances. According to Edwards, an amazing “one in eight” Americans lack “enough money for the food, shelter, and clothing they need,” caught in a daily “struggle with incredible poverty.” — Robert Rector, writing today [August 27th] in the National Review Online

Listen to talk show host Mark Levin read from Rector’s report. He commented, “This is what the liberals, the socialists want you to believe about your country. You know it’s not true but this is what they want you to believe because we have an ‘official’ number.”

Hat tip to Mark Levin Fan