In article <bg6ncq$lbl7d$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>, 
kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
> Subject: Re: Americans aren't so lazy after all
> From: "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com>
> Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan, soc.culture.canada, soc.culture.europe, alt.space.monkey.invaders, alt.abortion, alt.nuke.europe, alt.spacebastards, az.general, alt.nuke.the.usa
> 
> Pat Winstanley wrote:
> > In article <bg6lc6$kjsj7$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> > kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
> >>> And the level of poverty of the US population in real terms over
> >>> that time has done what exactly?
> >>
> >> Gone up.
> >>
> >
> > When?
> >
> > Do you have statistics to point out what proportions of people are now
> > at various percentiles and were then at various percentiles?
> >
> > Or are you just guessing and hoping?
> 
> I used your handy dandy link to the census bureau as my source
> 

Use any source you like. I didn't notice whether the percentiles were on 
that site. I was just looking at relative value of the dollar on that 
link and noticed that it was fairly static for a long time then leapt 
into devaluation just around the end of WWI. Then gradually lost more 
and more of its value. 

You see, I suspect (like you said) that there are more (relatively) poor 
now than there were in the US over the past half decade or so... I just 
don't know when that became the case (poverty rising rather than 
falling).

What made the poverty rise?

What was hapopening in the US at (or a bit before) the time the poverty 
trend started rising?