It looks like compassionate conservatism was compassion reserved for the rich.
According to Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles:
"The numbers of severely poor have increased faster than any other segment of the population."
According to Steven Woolf of Virginia:
"We're not seeing as much moderate poverty as a proportion of the population. What we're seeing is a dramatic growth of severe poverty."
You can read all about it here:
Accelerated growth of inequality
There are two disturbing facts which accompany this data:
1. A large middle class keeps a society stable.
2. As poverty rates rise the number of abortions rise.
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