Poverty American Style
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Rich on 2004/11/12:
„There's something wrong with our definition of poverty when the majority of poor people own a car, 2 TV's, and a VCR or DVD player.“
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Found at a page of Rich,
„Middle management workers in the Philippines or Indonesia (i.e., the so-called middle class), for example, often earn less than a fifth of that amount and, although there is a difference in the respective costs of living, it is nowhere near large enough to absorb the American's income advantage.“http://gweilodiaries.com/archives2/000197.html - Cached
Found at a page of Conrad, posted on 2004/02/23
„There are a number of problems with the Census Bureau’s poverty figures: Census undercounts income, ignores assets accumulated in prior years, and disregards non-cash welfare such as food stamps and public housing in its official count of income. However, the most important problem with Census figures is that, even if a family’s income falls below the official poverty thresholds, the family’s actual living conditions are likely to be far higher than the image most Americans have in mind when they hear the word "poverty."So cheer up. If you're "poor" in America, you're probably not.“http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/003052.html - Cached
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„The inner machinery of poverty won't reveal itself with such a cursory glance. In fact, it's these snapshot glances that produce the classically smug, one-dimensional views that dominate Republican ideas about the urban poor: They're lazy; they have no self-control; they're needlessly violent. In contrast, when you read LeBlanc's work, you get a sense of how it all connects together.“http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/ 000207.html - Cached
Found at a page of Clive Thompson, posted on 2003/01/13
„There cannot be a clearer demonstration of any thing, than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land, and poor in all the comforts of life; whom nature having furnished as liberally as any other people, with the materials of plenty, i.e. a fruitful soil, apt to produce in abundance, what might serve for food, raiment, and delight; yet for want of improving it by labour, have not one hundredth part of the conveniencies we enjoy: and a king of a large and fruitful territory there, feeds, lodges, and is clad worse than a day-labourer in England.“http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/000372.html - Cached
Found at a page of akling, posted on 2004/01/25
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