WASHINGTON — Every week, sometimes every day, new polls or data or articles come out that one may dare think are devised to make us feel worse about ourselves.This week’s depressing figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau, which duly reports that 49.1 million Americans are living in poverty, an exorbitant number. (In Chicago alone, 85 percent of the children in public schools now live below the poverty level.)Also this week the Congressional Budget Office reported that income gains made during times of economic growth were heavily concentrated in the top 1 percent of the distribution scale. …
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