On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> I heard on the NPR's "Marketplace" about the results of a newly released
> study that show no changes in the poverty level, even though the number of
> household headed by single women decreased (I did not catch the details
> because I was driving) - does anyone have any more information on that?
It was just a standalone short news item compiled from census data. From Marketplace's online archive:
Despite the historic 1990's economic and stock market boom, the number
of poor in America remains about the same. The U.S. Census Bureau
today released its most-detailed assessment yet from the Year 2000
Census Long-form, and it shows that 12 percent lived in poverty in
2000 -- compared to 13 percent 10 years earlier. Poverty this time
around is defined as a family of four living on $17,600 a year or
less, or a family of three living on $13,700 or less. However, the
number of families headed by a single mother was down significantly,
and the number of people earning more than $50,000 was way up -- from
28 percent a decade ago, to 42 percent in the recent census.
Michael