an another about the increasing visibility of the poor:
"What was that about a rising tide lifting all boats? What if you don't have a boat?"

No Longer Invisible: "To be poor in America was to be invisible, but not after this week, not after those images of the bedraggled masses at the Superdome, convention center and airport. No one can claim that the post-Reagan orthodoxy of low taxes and small government, which does wonders for the extremely rich, also inevitably does wonders for the extremely poor."