thanks! my cup runneth over! (what would I do without pen-l??) On 10/8/07, joel blau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Besides the Luxembourg Income Studies that Doug mentions, you should > also look at the data on the Institute for Research on Poverty website > at the University of Wisconsin at Madison [www.irp.wisc.edu/ ] . They > have a lot of pertinent material on this issue. > > Joel Blau > > Jim Devine wrote: > > Where can I find statistics since 1959 (or so) on the percentage of US > > families which earn less that (say) 1/2 of the median family income? > > I'm trying to get a time-series measuring a "relative" measure of > > poverty to compare to the official measure (basically an "absolute" > > measure of poverty). > > > > -- > > Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." > > -- Naomi Klein. > > > > >
-- Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." -- Naomi Klein.
