4 out of 5 in US face poverty at some point

[Angel!]

I think when you have done well in life it becomes easy to assume others must be at fault for their lack of success. 

I get really torn.  I think the fast food workers protesting for higher wages are idiots, I think occupy wall street was mostly pathetic people that needed to get their lives together, but at the same time I realize I have been very lucky in most aspects of my childhood and that is why I am where I am today.

[zibazinski]

I agree with Angel. I didn't have the best of mothers but I sure as hell knew what would happen to me if I got pregnant or didn't behave in school or in public. So the rest rather fell into place.

[Tennesseer]

Interesting article.  pbp posted the same AP article on another thread (EXCLUSIVE: SIGNS OF DECLINING ECONOMIC SECURITY,).  There was a paragraph in it that isn't included in Deminmaine's linked AP article.  The missing paragraph (there may be a few more missing but this one stood out) in Dem's linked article is the following:

Nationwide, the count of America's poor remains stuck at a record number: 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population, due in part to lingering high unemployment following the recession. While poverty rates for blacks and Hispanics are nearly three times higher, by absolute numbers the predominant face of the poor is white.

It was then followed by this paragraph which is in both pbp and Dem's article:

More than 19 million whites fall below the poverty line of $23,021 for a family of four, accounting for more than 41 percent of the nation's destitute — nearly double the number of poor blacks.

I am still waiting for pbp to respond to my question about his posted conclusion after both of us read his link.  
I also wonder why the paragraph was left out of Dem's link.