Disclaimer: Poverty is not really all that bad, is it?

What follows is taken directly from the Heritage Foundation website. You can find it yourself by calling up a list of all issues coverend by the Heritage Foundation and under Welfare Reform it will list Poverty and Inequality. This is just the disclaimer. It was clearly not enough for the Heritage Folks to claim that poverty is "more limited in scope and severity than one might think." No, they then list a series of articles and lectures published over the past few years, each with some other bombastic claim:

Performance Based Pay is Driving Increase in Inequality and that claims of growing hunger in the U.S. are wildly exaggerated... Published in 2004, the paper intended to discredit the reality of hunger experienced daily by millions of Americans has been proven wrong, year after year as hunger and poverty continued to increase. Now who's exaggerating?

Poverty & Inequality: "ISSUES > Welfare > Poverty & Inequality

Poverty and Inequality

For most Americans, the word poverty suggests destitution: an inability to provide a family with nutritious food , clothing, and reasonable shelter. Advocates of the welfare state often urge large expansions of welfare spending to combat allegedly widespread poverty in America, yet only a small portion of the 37 million persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau fit that description. While real material hardship certainly does occur, it is much more limited in scope and severity than one might imagine." ~ The Heritage Foundation