This is much bigger than an election...

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Ok you go argue this with these folks

Nearly half of children in the United States live dangerously close to the poverty line, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Basic Facts about Low-Income Children, the center's annual series of profiles on child poverty in America, illustrates the severity of economic instability and poverty conditions faced by more than 31 million children throughout the United States. Using the latest data from the American Community Survey, NCCP researchers found that while the total number of children in the U.S. has remained about the same since 2008, more children today are likely to live in families barely able to afford their most basic needs.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-american-children-poverty-line.html#jCp

And these foolks

“What struck me was that the poverty rate for whites and black remained almost where it was 40 years ago,” he added. “It certainly demonstrates that for as much as the country’s economy has grown since 1976, that prosperity hasn’t been shared particularly with people at the bottom. That’s what the numbers show, that economic growth over a 40-year period has benefited some but not all.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/state-of-black-america-2016_us_573a72e2e4b060aa781b180f

Plus the chart I posted went to 2014... most recent I could find, but the data on food insecurity is from this year, And these are from this year.