Mitch McConnell's Kentucky 7th biggest polluter in the USA

From the Huffington Post:

Carbon dioxide emissions from power plants rose in 2010 by over 5% -- this is the biggest annual increase since the EPA started tracking emissions in 1995. In part, this increase can be explained by warmer weather and a recovering economy. But the statistics are worrisome. 2010 was one of the hottest years ever recorded, and while in 2010 coal-fired boilers accounted for 45% of U.S. electricity, they were reportedly responsible for 81% of CO2 emissions from electricity generation.

Leaving Big Coal in charge in Kentucky means the highest cancer death rate in the Nation

Mitch McConnell's Kentucky has been sited as the 7th biggest polluting State in the US. Read the report here.

http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/documents/CO2Report_2011RJD21811final.pdf

Kentuckians for Clean Energy Fight Back



Here's the article:

http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/11/a-huge-win-for-clean-energy-in-kentucky.html

29,000 homeless children on Kentucky streets = 29,000 dead homeless children unless someone does something

Senator Mitch McConnell has more than 29,000 homeless children among his constituents. On the other hand, the Kentucky senator is worth nearly $33 million according to Open Secrets.org

With more than 29,000 homeless children Senator McConnell's Kentucky ranks 40th out of the 50 states in child homelessness according to Campaign to End Child Homelessness.

Read the full report: http://www.homelesschildrenamerica.org/pdf/report_cards/long/ky_long.pdf

Surely you should break your bread for the hungry, and bring the moaning poor to your home; when you see a naked person, clothe him...then your light will burst out like the dawn and your healing will speedily sprout; your righteous deed will precede you and the glory of the Lord will gather you in.

Isaiah 58:7-8

McConnell's Kentucky leads the nation in child abuse deaths. Joblessness blamed.

Mitch McConnell's Kentucky is No 1 and rising for child deaths due to abuse. This report from Fox News affiliate FOX41 blames the increase on Kentucky's high unemployment, the sixth highest in the US.

Learn about the full scope of Kentucky's public health crisis.

Four out of the nation's FIVE POOREST counties in McConnell's Kentucky: new US Census report

Since 2000 the poorest Americans have only gotten poorer.

Census results are only beginning to be released, last week the results of the American Community Survey were revealed. The ACS details data such as languages spoken in a home and income levels. The data comes from surveys mailed to three million addresses from January 2005 to December 2009.

Southeastern Kentucky was home to four of the nation's poorest counties. The country's poorest county saw its median income drop $1,500 since 2000.

Read the full article: HuffingtonPost

The Four Kentucky Counties in order of their national ranking (poorest first)

1. Owsley County, KY
2. Lee County, KY
3. Breathitt Country, KY
5. Magoffin Country, KY

Poor education and poverty are ancient history in eastern Kentucky, home to four out of the five poorest counties in the United States.

You have to wonder how Mitch McConnell his Republicans explain the fact that 9 out of 10 of the ten poorest counties in the US are in red states. Does this confirm that conservative politics has a negative impact on overall prosperity? Stay tuned, we plan on looking into this in an upcoming related blog.

Read about how Jim Demint ally, Senator Mitch McConnell's Kentucky is home to four out of the five poorest counties in the US.

Kentucky loses jobs even while unemployment in the rest of the country drops

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Given the fact that the holiday season is upon us and the rest of the country is experiencing modest job growth, its shocking that Kentucky is left behind the rising trend. Now is not the time for government job cutting.

Unfortunately, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell believes that budget cutting is the answer. In fact Kentucky lost 1,300 jobs last month to government spending cutback that only contribute to more unemployment and poverty in one of the poorest States in the country.

Read more in this article from Kentucky.com

Kentucky tax payers to foot bill for Noah's Ark Theme Park without feasibility study

While the State of Kentucky lays off 1,300 workers, they plan to provide tax incentives for a controversial Noah's Ark theme park without independent review. Could this be another example of why the investor's journal Wall St. 24/7 has rated Kentucky the WORST RUN STATE in the U.S.A.

The Victoria Advocate reports:

Jim Waters of the government watchdog group Bluegrass Institute in Bowling Green says he thinks it's "outrageous" that the incentives (for the controversial theme park) were offered without officials ever seeing a 10,000-page feasibility study.

Ark Encounter LLC is the group building the theme park and it is the group that commissioned the study. The company says the study predicts the park will attract 1.6 million visitors in its first year and create more than 900 full- and part-time jobs in Grant County.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports it discovered through Open Records Act requests that the state doesn't have a copy of the report. The newspaper says Ark Encounter officials declined to give the Herald-Leader a copy of the report.

Read the full article by Victoria Advocate.com

Kentucky County is poorest in the nation and getting poorer: US census

Owsley County, Ky., has the lowest median household income outside of Puerto Rico, according to the US Census Bureau. And its getting poorer with  median income having decreased to $18,869 from $20,346 in 2000.

Is this what Mitch McConnell has in mind for the rest of the country?

Read this: Four out of five poorest counties in the US are in Mitch McConnell's Kentucky

Read the ABC News report.

There's alot more than trees falling in Owsley County, Kentucky than is pictured in this shot of a local landslide. So while Mitch McConnell fights for the rich in Washington, DC, the residents there remain the poorest in the nation with high rates of drug addiction and incarceration.