Subject: Recent Research: Number of working poorfamilies growing in America Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:57:37 -0500 Message-ID: <376546015E56D640AB10F112B8127DDF02405E6A@PEPSI.uwec.edu> From: "Wahome, Kimamo" <WAHOMEK@uwec.edu>
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To those who claim they "did not know about the extent of poverty in
the US", it seems to me one has to "avoid knowing". Jean Paul Sartre
once said that the only way one could absolutely be sure to avoid
looking at something is to know exactly where it is. He referred to this
as absence being experienced as a presence.
For the latest info on poverty in America, you might find this
enlightening and share with those less enlighteded than most of you,
given what we all know about poverty from whom we serve and what we do.
Number of working poor families growing in America
Poverty in America, One Nation Pulling Apart
http://www.povertyinamerica.psu.edu
Although the War on Poverty was declared in the 1960s, a poor family
today in 2005 is much worse off than the average poor family in the
1960s, because official poverty measures have failed to keep up with
changing basic needs, according to a new report.
"An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation Pulling Apart, 1960-2003"
has just been published by a team of Penn State researchers. The project
was funded by the Ford Foundation. An expanded version of the atlas,
with updated and new sections, will be published by Routledge this fall.
"America has become a nation of people where all able persons who can
work, do, but many can not make ends meet," says Dr. Amy Glasmeier, lead
author and the E. Willard Miller Professor of Economic Geography at Penn
State. "America is not currently doing all it can to assist working
families, those who are discriminated against in the labor market, and
the disabled, to make ends meet. "Current U.S. poverty rates may
underestimate poverty among the working poor," she adds. "Being poor in
1960 meant getting by on less than $3,553 for a family of four a year.
Families were not expected to own a car or have a bed for each family
member, and nothing was budgeted for medical care or insurance. "
See above link for much more information.
Robert Levine
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