Why don't you cite some of it, then?
I can certainly cite plenty of data showing he's mostly right. For example, the poor mostly do not work, they mostly have good quality housing, and they have lots of food.
http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/2015/01/08/weight-and-social-mobil...
Concretely, what do you think he's wrong about, and where is the data supporting your claims?
Also, your second link is literally 642 pages, please point to the relevant part.
For example (table 2-2, page 48), 2.75% of poor households have a sagging roof. 66% of poor households (table 2-3, page 50) have at least 2 rooms/person and 94% have at least 1 room/person. 3.5% (table 2-4, page 52) lack a complete kitchen.
I don't know of any single characteristic to cite to prove that the conditions of poor people's housing are good; but whatever specific characteristic you want info on, you can probably find it in that document.
> I don't know if you've looked at how much gov't assistance is paying out, but it's not enough to live on.
Clearly it is, because these people don't have jobs and are able to afford housing, cars, TVs, Playstations, etc. How else are they paying for these things? Do you think they stole them? Clearly, the money they receive from the government is enough to live on. Maybe not enough to live comfortably, but enough.
Food deserts. Lead paint poisoning. Lack of access to healthcare.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-hea...
"Take, for instance, Sharlene Adams who recently needed a blood pressure cuff. To buy one required no less than four bus rides, a stop at her doctor's office for his signature, a visit to two different pharmacies and a side trip to borrow money to make the required co-pay. The 55-year-old eventually got her hands on the $40 item in East Baltimore 5 1/2 hours after starting on her quest, the Maryland students documented."
https://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561
Or see the Oregon experiment: https://www.nber.org/oregon/
Food deserts are actually the result of people's consumption choices - poor folks choose not to buy healthy food, so no one sells it to them. Making healthy food available does not change this behavior.
http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/giving-people-ac...
The thing I suspect is that the violence these people visit on themselves contributes more to their situation than lack of access to government services. I didn't say that more government services wouldn't help at all.
By the way, the Baltimore Sun article you cited is not about poor white people. It is about poor urban blacks in West Baltimore. That's not really relevant to this discussion, because blacks have faced enslavement and discrimination for centuries in this country. Discrimination against blacks, especially in hiring practices, has helped the poor white people we are talking about. Having to now compete against non-whites for jobs is a significant component of the poor white anger in this country, although many don't want to admit that.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/teens-baltimore-poorer-health...
"DR. ROBERT BLUM, JOHNS HOPKINS URBAN HEALTH INSTITUTE: Well, first of all, just to put that in perspective, if Baltimore were a country, we would be 75th in the world for infant mortality, below every industrialize country and many low and middle-income countries."
That is an American neighborhood. Tell me how Medicare and welfare payments make everything alright again?
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I don't know if you've looked at how much gov't assistance is paying out, but it's not enough to live on. There's a plethora of data contradicting everything you say, but it doesn't fit with your moralizing narrative.