Anticipating the release of devastating new poverty and health
care statistics, the Bush administration today took the extraordinary
step today of trying to bury the numbers. Specifically, the
Administration had its top political appointee at the Census Bureau
release the numbers a month earlier than usual, during the August
congressional recess when many reporters and Americans take their
summer vacations. The rescheduling of the announcement also means that
the bad numbers will not come out in September immediately after the
Republican National Convention, when they have traditionally been
released. With the President's economic and health care agenda leaving
millions behind, the Associated Press reports, "the statistics today
show the number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million
last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million." [more ]
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