Pat Winstanley wrote:
> In article <bg6ncq$lbl7d$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>,
> kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com says...
>> Subject: Re: Americans aren't so lazy after all
>> From: "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com>
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>> soc.culture.europe, alt.space.monkey.invaders, alt.abortion,
>> alt.nuke.europe, alt.spacebastards, az.general, alt.nuke.the.usa
>>
>> Pat Winstanley wrote:
>>> In article <bg6lc6$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 see. You posted a link without reading it. Why?

> 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)

I didn't say that.

> at there are more (relatively)
> poor
> now than there were in the US over the past half decade or so... I

Actually, as a percentage of the population, there are less. See the chart
linked below.

> just
> don't know when that became the case (poverty rising rather than
> falling).

Here are numbers from 1975-2001.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104525.html

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

Poor people doing what makes them poor. That is the cause of poverty.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
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