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US Midterms: Race-Blind Republicans Lose Control of House

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Millions of first-time nonwhite voters in urban areas have ensured that the race-blind Republican Party—which still ignores the reality that whites are rapidly becoming a minority—has lost control of the House in yesterday’s mid-term elections, making it clear that ethnic balkanzation of America offers the only route for white survival on that continent. With all 435 House seats up for grabs,... 

47 million Americans live in poverty right now

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The middle class in America has been disappearing because of the rapid increase in the cost of living in the United States. Indeed, the cost of living in the United States (food, rent, medical insurance and so on) has been growing rapidly. On the federal level, the poverty threshold for a family of five makes up $28,410, although 51% of all American workers make less than $ 30,000 a year at the moment. In... 

Whites the new minority in America by 2044

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New population projections by the US Census Bureau show that whites will become a minority by 2044. The US will be home to a youthful, growing minority population juxtaposed against an aging, slow-growing, and soon to be declining white population. The new projections from the Census Bureau show two trends for American’s population: a long-term decline for the nation’s white population – which... 

Over a quarter of US kids on food stamps, under-50s dying young

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American health is in decline as new data finds that one in four US kids are on food stamps as of fiscal year 2011 and the younger generation is more prone to death and poorer health levels compared to their counterparts in other developed nations. Almost 20 million children out of 73.9 million under the age of 18 were in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, in 2011,... 

Over 46 million US citizens live in poverty

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People wait in line with boxes to carry food from a food bank in northern New York in June. New official data show that the US government has failed to reduce the level of poverty in the country amid weak economic growth. The US Census Bureau said in an annual report on Wednesday that 46.2 million Americans are still living below the poverty line. The overall poverty rate stood at 15 percent in 2011,... 

Minority report: White births no longer majority in the US

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For the first time in US history, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber its white majority – white births make up fewer than half the children born in the country, according to the US Census Bureau. ­The new 2011 census, which was made public on Thursday, reveals non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 per cent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July. The minorities – Hispanics,... 
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