--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> > But a large proportion of the population of New
> > Orleans is *grindingly* poor.
> 
> "Large proportion": 

21 percent of households under $10,000/year
39 percent of households under $20,000/year

Forty percent of the children in New Orleans
live in poverty.

The federal poverty level is $14,629 a year
for a family of three.

The national average of people living below
the poverty level is 13.7 percent; New Orleans
has the third-highest percentage of people
living in poverty in the United States.





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