If you are so ashamed, why don't you go out and do something to improve the
situation. Anyone can sit back and complain. - Retired Handicapped School
Teacher with 39 years of service.
You could help some one to read, for example!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Rittenhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:50 AM
Subject: OT: Poverty facts
> Someone said that we were throwing around "factoids" in the discussion
> about the relative wealth of the US. So some facts culled from
> www.census.gov.
>
> US population: 283,480,034
> Median income: $39,657 blacks have the lowest, asians the highest.
> Lowest quintile: (Average income for the lowest 20% of the population)
> $9,940
> Lowest 20% of households: less than $17,196
> Highest 5% " " : over $142,021
> Poverty threasholds (households):
> 1 person $8501
> 2 people $10869
> 4 people $17029
>
> US Households below poverty level: 11.8%
>
> Highest state poverty rate: 19.7% District of Columbia (Nations Capitol)
> Lowest state poverty rate: 7.6% Maryland ( Right next door, I guess this
> shows where most gov employees live).
>
> Percent of people who were below the poverty level for 2 or more months
> in 1993: 30.3
> (Amost a third of the population were below the subsistance level for
> at least 2 months)
> Ya, sure, we are the richest nation on earth. Something stinks and it
> ain't in Denmark. Bad as I knew it was, I didn't think it was this
> bad. And, apparently, 21.5% of these people received no public
> assistance. This make me ashamed to be an American citizen.
>
> Compared to the slums of Mexico City this ain't bad. Compared to the
> rest of the industrialized nations it stinks. Someone like to supply
> statisics for the EU and Japan?
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