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FAIR Study – The Poor Will Always Be Among Us

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Follow up to three recent postings addressing poverty in American and around the world, Interim Statement of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health 2007; Joint Economic Committee: Income Down, Poverty Up Since 2000; Census Bureau Reports Household Income Rises, Poverty Rate Declines – see the following report from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): The Poor Will Always Be With Us, Just not on the TV news, By Steve Rendall and Neil deMause.

  • “According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data, 37 million Americans—one in eight—lived below the federal poverty line in 2005, defined as an annual income of $19,971 for a family of four. Yet poverty touches a far greater share of the population over the course of their lives: A 1997 study by University of Michigan economist Rebecca Blank found that one-third of all U.S. residents will experience government-defined poverty within a 13-year period. The poorest age group is children, with more than one in six living in official poverty at any given time.”
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