Median HH Income Has Fallen, But Not Because Workers are Earning Less

Yes, median household income has fallen. Not because those who are working are earning less, but because the number of households without earners is increasing. One-quarter of all households now have nobody employed and just subsist on the huge number of welfare handouts available In many states you are actually better off not working than having a job.

Spending and Spending On Creating More and More Poverty

Over the last five years, the federal government has spent a total $3.7 trillion on approximately 80 different means-tested poverty and welfare programs. And yet the government tells us that poverty is increasing, Usually if you spend a lot of money on projects to reduce something and that something keeps increasing, it's called a FAILURE. In Washington that's grounds for spending even more money.  Because in Washington, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the norm. Everywhere outside the Beltway it's called insanity.