Poverty

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39-50	June 2008 Article Turning away from Jesus: Gay rights and the war for the Episcopal Church By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Anglican Communion; Appointment, call, and election; Bishops; Career as Archbishop of Uganda; Career as first openly gay bishop in Anglican Communion; Church work; Doctrines; Episcopal Church; Orombi, Henry Luke; Homosexuality; Poverty; Robinson, V. Gene PDF TEXT IMAGES
58-66	May 2007 Article The continuation of poverty: Rebranding foreign aid in Kenya By Victoria Schlesinger SEE ALSO: Career as Kenyan UN Millennium Project director; Economic assistance; Food supply; Humanitarian assistance; International cooperation; Sachs, Jeffrey; Kenya; Non-governmental organizations; Sánchez, Pedro A.; Poverty; United Nations; Views on economic assistance PDF IMAGES
17-22	June 2004 Readings/Article Planet of slums By Mike Davis SEE ALSO: Globalization; Islam; 1995-2005; Poverty; Slums; Urban poor; World politics PDF IMAGES
68-74	April 1995 Article Mexico and its discontents: After the peso's collapse, an unemployed population looks north By Douglas W. (Douglas Wilton) Payne SEE ALSO: Payne, Douglas W. (Douglas Wilton); Journeys—Mexico; 1982-; 1988-; Poverty; Slums PDF IMAGES
72-73	October 1986 Article Anxiety and its discontents. The hows and whats of worrying By Mark Randall SEE ALSO: Anxiety; Poverty; Worry PDF IMAGES
35-47	April 1986 Article [Untitled Article] By Jesse Jackson and Charles A. Murray SEE ALSO: Murray, Charles A.; Jackson, Jesse; Political and social views; Poor; Poverty; Public welfare PDF IMAGES
39-48	November 1979 Article The make-work economy: Escaping the toils of welfare dependency By George F. Gilder SEE ALSO: 1971-1981; Poverty; Social policy PDF IMAGES
10	March 1975 Wraparound/Article A crash course in underconsumption By Jan Yager SEE ALSO: Yager, Jan; Journeys—India; Poverty PDF IMAGES
11	February 1975 Wraparound/Article The pain of standing on your own two feet By Patricia Reed Scott SEE ALSO: Aged; Poverty; Social service PDF IMAGES
131	November 1973 Wraparound/Article Doing without By Pamela Erbe Wiener SEE ALSO: Poverty PDF IMAGES
103-112	May 1970 Article The view from Hilton Head By Marshall Frady SEE ALSO: Hilton Head (S.C.); Industrialization; Pollution; Poverty; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
67-75	December 1968 Article A warning to the rich white world By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Developing countries; Economic assistance, American; International relations; Poverty PDF IMAGES
64-71	September 1968 Article Making a rational foreign policy now By Robert L. Heilbroner SEE ALSO: Communism; Developing countries; Economic development; 1963-1969; Population; Poverty; Revolutions; World politics PDF IMAGES
12-23	June 1968 The easy chair/Article Western intellectuals vs. Myrdal's brutal facts By John Fischer SEE ALSO: IAsian drama: an inquiry into the poverty of nationsI (Book); Economic assistance; Myrdal, Gunnar; Poverty; Socialism; South Asia; Views on South Asia PDF IMAGES
9-12	January 1968 The easy chair/Article A shipload of doomed men By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Governors; 1963-1969; 1968; Poverty; Rural-urban migration; Urban policy; Urbanization PDF IMAGES
56-62	January 1968 Article The doctors meet the people By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Bronx (New York, New York); Career as physician; Community health services; Contributions to public health in the Bronx; Wise, Harold; Medical care; Poverty; Public health; Social problems PDF IMAGES
74-75	October 1967 How it is/Article Getting on welfare By Paul Jacobs SEE ALSO: Bureaucracy; Los Angeles; Poverty; Public welfare; Public welfare administration; Welfare recipients PDF IMAGES
69-73	October 1966 Article Spiral to a gun By Martha Gellhorn SEE ALSO: Crime; Poverty; Saint Louis; Trials PDF IMAGES
54	January 1966 Article Portrait of Gabriel: A Puerto Rican family in San Juan and New York By Oscar Lewis SEE ALSO: Immigrants; Poor children; Poverty; Puerto Rican children; Puerto Rican families; Puerto Rico; San Juan PDF IMAGES
54-59	January 1966 Article Gabriel By Gabriel SEE ALSO: Immigrants; Poor children; Poverty; Puerto Rican children; Puerto Rican families; Puerto Rico; San Juan PDF IMAGES
50	December 1965 Article How to look at other people's poverty By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion; Poverty PDF IMAGES
44-48	February 1957 Article South Carolina's incurable aristocrats By William Francis Guess SEE ALSO: Aristocracy (Political science); Migration, Internal; Poverty; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
56-61	July 1951 Article The child reservoir of the South By Mary Heaton Vorse SEE ALSO: Migration, Internal; Mountain whites (Southern States); Poverty; Rural-urban migration PDF IMAGES
27-33	June 1950 Article Who are the American poor? By Robert L. Heilbroner SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; Poor; Poverty PDF IMAGES
56-63	June 1943 Article Our American slum, Puerto Rico By S. Burton Heath SEE ALSO: 1918-1952; Poverty; Puerto Rico PDF IMAGES
80-91	June 1935 Article The road to destitution: Why twenty millions need relief By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Poverty; Public welfare; Unemployment; Welfare recipients PDF IMAGES
513-524	April 1935 Article Planning for permanent poverty: What subsistence farming really stands for By Harold M. Ware and Webster Powell SEE ALSO: Land settlement; Poverty; Subsistence economy; Urban-rural migration PDF IMAGES
462-469	March 1929 Article “I'm hunting for a job” By Paul Peters SEE ALSO: Job hunting; New Orleans; Poverty; Unemployed; Unemployment; Working class PDF IMAGES
467-477	September 1928 Article China's covered wagon By Olive Gilbreath SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Manchuria (China); 1912-1949; Peasantry; Poverty PDF IMAGES
335-341	February 1927 Article The Bowery under Prohibition By Stephen Graham SEE ALSO: Alcoholism; Bowery (New York, New York : Street); Lower East Side (New York, New York); Poverty PDF IMAGES
658-660	October 1926 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Thomas B. (Thomas Bucklin) Wells SEE ALSO: City and town life; Fear; Poverty PDF IMAGES
848	May 1924 Editor's drawer/Article For the quick SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Poverty PDF IMAGES
831	May 1923 Editor's drawer/Article Practice makes perfect SEE ALSO: African American women; Laundresses; Poverty PDF IMAGES
833-838	May 1910 Article The Good Samaritan, incorporated By Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère SEE ALSO: Career in New York charities; Charities; Charity Organization Society (New York, New York); Devine, Edward T. (Edward Thomas); Knowledge—Economic aspects of poverty; New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (New York, New York); Poor; Poverty; Hartley, Robert M.; Patten, Simon N. (Simon Nelson); Social problems PDF IMAGES
969	November 1906 Editor's drawer/Article A Whistler story SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Whistler, James McNeill; Poverty PDF IMAGES
644	September 1905 Editor's drawer/Article Cap'n Dick's philosophy SEE ALSO: Fame; Poverty; Rumor PDF IMAGES
788-789	October 1881 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Poverty; Social mobility PDF IMAGES
317-318	January 1881 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Poverty PDF IMAGES
320	January 1878 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Peddlers and peddling; Poverty; Sympathy PDF IMAGES
949	November 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Actors; Career in acting; Shuter, Edward; Poverty PDF IMAGES
701-703	April 1869 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Duval, Claude; Poverty PDF IMAGES
339-347	February 1869 Article Chivalrous and semi-chivalrous Southrons (II) By John William De Forest SEE ALSO: Chivalry; Poverty; Southerners PDF IMAGES
705-706	April 1862 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, English; Poverty; Russell, William Howard, Sir PDF IMAGES
710	October 1858 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Detroit; Laundry; Poverty PDF IMAGES
856	November 1854 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Poverty PDF IMAGES
423	February 1853 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Biographers; Poverty PDF IMAGES

Sep 2006	Percentage of Americans in 1983 who thought it was “possible to start out poor in this country . . . and become rich”: 57 Percentage who think this today: 80	Harper's Index Source: New York Times‒CBS News Poll (N.Y.C.)
Mar 2006	Percentage of African-American families that have zero or negative net worth: 31	Harper's Index Source: Edward N. Wolff, New York University
Mar 2006	Chance that the family of an African-American child is too poor to qualify for the full U.S. child tax credit: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: Tax Policy Center (Washington)
Nov 2005	Percentage discount that Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez has said he will offer poor Americans on oil and gas purchases: 40	Harper's Index Source: Minestrio de Comunicación e Información (Caracas)
Dec 2004	Percentage of poor Americans who lived in the suburbs in 1959 and last year, respectively : 17,39	Harper's Index Source: Harper's Research
Dec 2004	Ratio of the number of poor Americans living in cities to the number who live in suburbs : 21:20	Harper's Index Source: Harper's Research
Mar 2004	Percentage of Americans living below the poverty level who voted in the 2000 presidential election : 38	Harper's Index Source: Committee for Community Change (Washington)
Mar 2004	Percentage of Americans living at twice the poverty level who voted in the 2000 presidential election : 68	Harper's Index Source: Committee for Community Change (Washington)
Mar 2004	Percentage increase since 1999 in U.S. households in which there was hunger due to poverty during the year : 22	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
Dec 2003	Percentage change since 2001 in the number of U.S. families in poverty: +6	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
Dec 2001	Ratio of New York City welfare recipients whose benefits ended this year to the number of police officers there: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: New York City Police Department/New York City Human Resources Administration
Aug 2001	Ratio of the starting salary of an Oklahoma prison guard to the federal poverty level for a family of four: 10:11	Harper's Index Source: Oklahoma Corrections Department (Oklahoma City)/U.S. Census Bureau
Jul 2001	Percentage of Americans living below the poverty line who believe that "poor people today have it easy": 31	Harper's Index Source: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (Menlo Park, Calif.)
Dec 2000	Chances that an OPEC country discloses its poverty rate: 4 in 11	Harper's Index Source: United Nations (N.Y.C.)
Dec 2000	Chance that the poverty rate of an OPEC country that discloses it is less than 15 percent: 0	Harper's Index Source: United Nations (N.Y.C.)
Jul 2000	Number of U.S. counties in which a full-time minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment: 0	Harper's Index Source: National Low Income Housing Coalition (Washington)
Jun 2000	Percentage change since 1992 in the average household income of the lowest-paid fifth of Silicon Valley workers: -2.7	Harper's Index Source: Realfacts (Novato, Calif.)/Collaborative Economics (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Apr 2000	Number of former welfare recipients New York City trained since last April to work as phone psychics: 15	Harper's Index Source: Department of Social Services (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Estimated number of people today who live on less than $30 per month: 1,300,000,000	Harper's Index Source: World Bank Group (Washington)
Jan 2000	Chance that an African American who is a New York State resident today lives below the poverty level: 1 in 4	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Dec 1999	Billions in new federal poverty spending that the President proposed during his poverty tour last July: $1	Harper's Index Source: White House Press Office
Nov 1999	Number of East Harlem ATM machines offering free service for the neighborhood's 11,000 welfare recipients: 7	Harper's Index Source: New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (Albany, N.Y.)
Nov 1999	Number of Upper East Side ATM machines offering free service for the neighborhood's 700 welfare recipients: 120	Harper's Index Source: New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (Albany, N.Y.)
Nov 1999	Average percentage of revenue on a Wisconsin for-profit welfare agency's contract this year that will be profit: 17.1	Harper's Index Source: Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (Madison, Wis.)
Nov 1999	Chance that a Texan living below the poverty line receives welfare: 1 in 10	Harper's Index Source: Texas Department of Human Services (Austin, Tex.)
Nov 1999	Federal anti-poverty funds granted Texas since 1996 that have not been spent: $149,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Texas Department of Human Services (Austin, Tex.)
Oct 1999	Number of days last August that Iowa hosted both the GOP presidential straw poll and the National Hobo Convention: 1	Harper's Index Source: Britt City Chamber of Commerce (Britt, Iowa)/Iowa State Republican Party (Des Moines)
Oct 1999	Number of contestants at the National Hobo Convention in Iowa who vied there for the title of 1999 Hobo King: 3	Harper's Index Source: Britt City Chamber of Commerce (Britt, Iowa)/Iowa State Republican Party (Des Moines)
May 1999	Percentage of children born in New York City last year who are living in poverty: 52	Harper's Index Source: Citizens' Committee for Children of New York (N.Y.C.)
May 1999	Number of states in which families living at or below the federal poverty level are subject to income tax: 19	Harper's Index Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington)
Apr 1999	Estimated attendance at a rally for debt relief for poor countries held outside Britain's 1998 G-7 summit: 60,000	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Mar 1999	Average amount each American living in poverty would receive if 1998's budget surplus were divided among them: $1,967	Harper's Index Source: Congressional Budget Office/Bureau of the Census
Dec 1998	Rank of the U.S. among the 17 leading industrial nations with the largest percentage of their populations in poverty: 1	Harper's Index Source: United Nations Human Development Report 1998 (N.Y.C.)
Jun 1998	Percentage of the poverty level for a family of three earned by a full-time minimum-wage worker: 82	Harper's Index Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington)
Jun 1998	Percentage of the 1968 poverty level earned by a minimum-wage worker that year: 111	Harper's Index Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington)
Apr 1998	Maximum fine for begging without a permit in Orlando, Florida: $500	Harper's Index Source: City Attorney's Office (Orlando, Fla.)
Apr 1998	Minimum distance, in feet, that Orlando beggars must maintain from those they ask for money: 3	Harper's Index Source: City Attorney's Office (Orlando, Fla.)

June 4, 2007	A family in Morocco were evicted from the toilet where they had lived for several years. “When he came home,” said the mother of her son, “he would cry and asked me why we lived in the toilet.”	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: BBC
June 29, 2006	A study showed that rich people get more sleep than poor people, white people get more sleep than black people, and women get more sleep than men.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters
June 29, 2006	Another study found that money does not buy very much happiness.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: LiveScience.com
June 21, 2006	The U.S. Senate voted for the ninth consecutive year to keep the minimum wage at $5.15 per hour.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: The New York Times
April 20, 2006	Pawn-shop owners in Texas noted that more people were pawning their belongings in order to buy gas.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CBS11TV.com
October 22, 2005	An Oregon man won $340 million in the Powerball lottery.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: ABC News
September 8, 2005	Wealthy residents of New Orleans were devising ways to rebuild the city with a minimum of poor people.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Raw Story/WSJ
September 5, 2005	Barbara Bush visited the Astrodome and said that, given that the evacueesfrom Hurricane Katrina that were residing there were "underprivileged anyway," things were "working out very well" for them.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Editor & Publisher
August 26, 2005	Hurricane Katrina killed 11 people in Florida, and more than a million homes and businesses lost power. Katrina then crossed over the Gulf of Mexico and went ashore east of New Orleans, becoming a Category 5 storm along the way. "PERSONS . . . PETS . . . AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS," said the National Weather Service, "WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK . . . WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS." The hurricane eventually weakened to a tropical storm; winds tore off parts of the roof of the Superdome, where thousands of poor people sought shelter, and at least 55 people were killed in Mississippi.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: AP Source 2: The Roanoke Times
April 15, 2005	Prompted by the credit-card industry, which made $30 billion in profits last year, the House approved new legislation that will make it much harder for families to declare personal bankruptcy.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: American Progress Action Source 2: New York Post
February 21, 2004	The president's chief economic advisor suggested that fast-food jobs might need to be reclassified. "When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?"	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Newsday
February 18, 2004	It was noted, not for the first time, that George W. Bush could be the first president since Herbert Hoover to end a term with fewer American jobs than when he started.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
January 29, 2004	President Bush was reportedly planning to cut back on AIDS and poverty programs in the Third World.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
November 26, 2003	Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California proposed cutbacks in therapy for the mentally disabled and in AIDS and poverty programs.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times

583-590	March 1902 Poem The deserted village By Oliver Goldsmith SEE ALSO: Poverty; Villages PDF IMAGES
500	March 1882 Poem Upon Clunn By Robert Herrick SEE ALSO: Clunn; Heraldry; Nobility; Poem; Poverty PDF IMAGES
233	January 1876 Poem Outside By Carl Spencer SEE ALSO: Poor women; Poverty PDF IMAGES
204	July 1875 Poem From the Spanish of Calderon By Helen S. (Helen Stevens) Conant SEE ALSO: Poverty PDF IMAGES
578	March 1874 Poem The outside of the window By John James Piatt SEE ALSO: Poverty PDF IMAGES
211-212	July 1860 Poem A voice from the street. “A palace and a prison on each hand” By L.A. Bargie SEE ALSO: Poverty; Wealth PDF IMAGES
513-514	March 1860 Poem Our Christmas-tree By Fitz James O'Brien SEE ALSO: Christmas trees; Poverty PDF IMAGES

740	October 1917 Editor's drawer/Joke Better than he knew SEE ALSO: Children's writings, American; Definition (Logic); Geophysics; Gravity; Poverty PDF IMAGES
478	August 1916 Editor's drawer/Joke Hardships of the poor SEE ALSO: Poverty; Tramps PDF IMAGES

306-317	August 1865 Fiction Julian By D.R. Castleton SEE ALSO: Children, Deaf; Mentally handicapped; Mother and child; Poverty PDF IMAGES
741-744	November 1864 Fiction The real cost By Czeika SEE ALSO: Civilian relief; Historical fiction; Poverty; War widows PDF IMAGES
85-92	June 1864 Fiction The letter G By Aunt Fanny SEE ALSO: Elopement; Poverty PDF IMAGES
110-113	June 1860 Fiction Only words By T.S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur SEE ALSO: Didactic fiction; Poverty; Teachers PDF IMAGES
54-56	December 1851 Fiction The French flower girl SEE ALSO: Flower language; Poverty PDF IMAGES