The Case for Dubya/more progress

[John Halle]

> 
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 22:07:32 -0500
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: RE: The Case for Dubya
> 
> Nathan Newman wrote:
> 
> >If you want to summarize the Clinton years, you end up with social programs
> >holding roughly even as a percentage of GDP, with the tax burden being
> >decreased on the working poor & lower middle class with effective tax rates
> >being increased on the wealthy.
> 
> Poverty rate in 1989: 11.5%. In 1998, 11.2%.
> 
> Poverty line as percent of median income in 1989, 28.9%. In 1998, 27.8%.
> 
> Growth in real GDP from 1989 to 1998: 29.6%.
> 
> Isn't progress wonderful?
> 
> Doug
> 

                                  USA TODAY

                   February 2, 2000, Wednesday, FIRST EDITION

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 6A

LENGTH: 480 words

HEADLINE: Study finds large increase in extent of homelessness

BYLINE: Richard Wolf

 BODY: One of every 100 Americans used a <homeless> service -- from
emergency shelters to soup kitchens -- at some point during 1996, nearly
double the number from a decade before, a study estimates.

   From 2.3 million to 3.5 million people were <homeless> at least once in
1996, the most recent year for which data are available. That compares
with 1.4 million-1.8 million in 1987, according to the Urban Institute.