Black and White

Ah... it is refreshing how our administration makes everything so clear cut! Check this out: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/.

I learned that the National School Lunch Program is failing, because "The program does not have a reliable measure of the level of erroneous payments it makes. The number of children approved for free meals each year exceeds estimates of the number of children who should be eligible." Maybe that is because there are more and more people below the poverty line.

The poverty rate in 2004 (12.7 percent) was 9.7 percentage points lower than in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available (Figure 3). From the most recent trough in 2000 both the number and rate have risen for four consecutive years, from 31.6 million and 11.3 percent in 2000, to 37.0 million and 12.7 percent in 2004 respectively.

Good job Mr. President.