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Absender : goertzel@crab.rutgers.edu (Ted Goertzel) Org.-Empf. : psn@csf.colorado.edu Weiterleiter owner-psn@csf.colorado.edu Betreff : Poverty in US vs Canada Datum : Di 12.05.98, 13:25 (erhalten: 13.05.98) Groesse : 1791 Bytes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Nachricht am 13.05.98 archiviert ## Ursprung: /PSN@also.ol.ni.schule.de
The News about poverty in Canada (from Joanne Roulston) is interesting, especially compared to the United States where poverty seems to be leveling off. and the rate of children in poverty is down. (for details, check the paper on welfare reform on my WEB site, http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel
I wonder what accounts for the difference? Are economic trends worse in Canada? Apparently they also have recovered from the 1990-91 recession. Have they not reformed welfare as we have? Anyone up there have ideas about why things are different?
The Current Population Reports for the United States 1996 finds that:
x The poverty rate and the number of people living below the official government poverty level remained statistically unchanged between 1995 and 1996. In 1996, the number of people in poverty was 36.5 (+/-0.9) million, representing 13.7 (+/-0.3) percent of the population. x The poverty rate for people residing inside central cities declined significantly between 1995 and 1996, from 20.6 (+/-0.8) percent to 19.6 (+/-0.8) percent. x Using an alternative definition of income that added the value of means-tested noncash transfers (e.g. food stamps, housing subsidies, and medicaid) to post-tax cash income from the private and government sectors would result in 27.1 (+/-0.8) million people being poor and a corresponding poverty rate of 10.2 (+/-0.5) percent. x Even though the poverty rate for Whites (11.2 percent) was lower than that of any other racial or ethnic group, the majority of the poor in 1996 were White (67.5
Children in Poverty figures for the US are as follows: 1991 21.8 1992 22.3 1993 22.7 1994 21.8 1995 20.8 1996 20.5
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