Income and Poverty Over the 2000-2007 Business Cycle
2000-2007: the first business cycle during which median household income in America falls from peak to peak:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/p60-235.pdf
It's not all George W. Bush's fault, but I can think of a number of things he did to hurt and not a damned thing he did to help.
The poverty rate rose from 12.3 to 12.5 percent of the population between 2006 and 2007.
And private health insurance coverage continued to decline.
