Poverty

Jonathan Weisman of the Washington Post anticipates good economic news from Census Bureau today.  In his article today he says,

The Census Bureau tomorrow will release the latest statistics on poverty in the United States, the income level of an average household and the number of Americans still lacking health insurance.

Don't believe the numbers.

Having a hard time coming up with bad news, Jonny? 

Update:  A clue to the basis of Jonathan Weisman's story may be found in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required).

Now that the economy has created some four million new jobs over the past two years and the unemployment rate has fallen to a five-year low, the left's jabs about the Bush "jobless recovery" have lost their sting. So just in time for Labor Day, the Democrats' new line of attack against the Bush tax cut policies is "stagnant wages."

Labor Day is coming up!  Time for some disingenuous lefty solidarity with us exploited workers, so on to the attack.  In the coming days we can expect a barrage of articles and opinion columns explaining why good economic reports are not to be believed.