Poverty rates rising in rural towns
By Robert E. Pierre
The Washington Post
Sunday, July 18, 2004
COAHOMA, Miss. The abandoned shells of buildings along the main
drag serve as a glum backdrop for the youngsters who sit in front of them
for hours, idly chatting and staring into the occasional
The cover story of the same issue of Business Week describes the massive
effort being undertaken by US corporations to divest themselves of their
pension obligations to their employees and retirees. Most of the attacks are
aimed at the defined-benefit plans negotiated by once-strong unions in the
for the rest of us.
The class issue has shadowed the war from the start but has lately been
getting more attention. It is the impetus for several initiatives on
Capitol Hill and a theme of Michael Moores antiwar documentary,
Fahrenheit 9/11. Its a poverty draft, said Rick Jahnkow, who does
anti
Village Voice, April 27th, 2004
Generation Debt - the New Economics of Being Young
by Anya Kamenetz
Wanted: Really Smart Suckers
Grad school provides exciting new road to poverty
Here's an exciting career opportunity you won't see in the classified
ads. For the first six to 10 years, it pays less
, and the sports programs continue to swallow money -- it's
also a political move.
3. Going to graduate school does not lead to poverty, unless one stays
in academia. I don't know of a single person that I went to grad school
with who is poor today. Most did not go into teaching. The skills you
learn serve
.
www.gateway2russia.com
27 April 2004
Who`s Poor in Russia?
One of the specific features of Russian poverty is that half of the
Russian poor work, - says Lilia Ovcharova, Director of Academic Programs
at the Independent Institute for Social Policy and of the Laboratory for
Standards of Living at the Russian
for one last ladling of praise and blame.
Edwards deserves some praise because he is the only major candidate who
talks consistently about the poor. The problem is that he talks about
poverty in an obsolete way, which suggests he has learned nothing from
the past 40 years.
Edwards talks about poverty
Quoth Father Devine:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
More Than Money
By DAVID BROOKS
It's 98% drivel, but there is this 2%:
. . . While conservatives were right about the basic nature of poverty
presidential campaign. But before we bid him adieu, it's time
for one last ladling of praise and blame.
Edwards deserves some praise because he is the only major candidate who
talks consistently about the poor. The problem is that he talks about
poverty in an obsolete way, which suggests he has
I said: I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow
a friend replied that David Brooks isn't competition for Krugman: he's his job
insurance.
Jim Devine
Jim, any idea who this Brooks is?
Paul
Devine, James wrote:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
as this fellow:
March 2, 2004/New York TIMES
More Than Money
By DAVID BROOKS
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Jim, any idea who this Brooks is?
Paul
He wrote a pretty funny radical chic type book on the meritocracy:
Bobos in Paradise. I'm actually surprised he's devolved into this.
Joanna
paul phillips wrote:
Jim, any idea who this Brooks is?
Paul
Devine, James wrote:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page
joanna bujes wrote:
He wrote a pretty funny radical chic type book on the meritocracy:
Bobos in Paradise.
He stole a lot of it from Tom Frank.
Doug
James Devine wrote:
I wonder if Paul Krugman is embarrassed to appear on the same op-ed page as
this fellow:
He should... the same way we all should feel embarrassed for sharing the
same federal administration with David Brooks. It may be as hard for us to
alter the White House's policies as for
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=492148
Brown: We are 150 years off our targets in tackling world poverty
By Ben Russell and Philip Thornton
17 February 2004
Gordon Brown warned that key global targets for reducing poverty by 2015
might not be met for 150 years as he
POVERTY GAPS IN THE U.S. BETWEEN THE RACES, AGE GROUPS, AND GENDERS
DECREASED STEADILY SINCE 1995--- BUT STILL A WAYS TO GO
THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR KEEPS INCREASING
A study by Manchester College researchers used US Census
data to compare poverty rates for different subgroups
U.S. Poverty Rate Up, Income Down for Second Straight Year
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2003; 12:50 PM
Nearly 1.7 million people fell into poverty last year, ticking the official
poverty rate up to 12.1 percent from the 2001 rate of 11.7 percent
Proletariat quiescent..
--- Eubulides [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
U.S. Poverty Rate Up, Income Down
=
*
--why do you slack your fighting-fury now? It's hard for me, strong as I am,
single-handed to breach the wall and cut
Title: FW: [Iww-news] 1/3/2003 Seminar On Women And Poverty
--
From: steve zeltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 15:32:36 -0800
To: bawdn [EMAIL PROTECTED], TUDN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Iww-news] 1/3/2003 Seminar On Women And Poverty
Women and Poverty
-Trafficking
My friend Keith Kilty is an editor of _Journal of Poverty_
http://www.journalofpoverty.org/index.htm. He's now working on
putting together a list of contributors for a special JoP issue on
poverty and inequality in Latin America. If you know excellent
scholars on the subject, let me know
Title: poverty up
New York TIMES/September 24, 2002
Recession Cut Incomes and Swelled Poverty Rolls, U.S. Says
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 -- The number of poor people in the United States rose by about 1.3 million last year, while household income declined significantly
Poverty explosion in eastern Europe, ex-USSR: WHO.
AFP. 17 September 2002. Poverty explosion in eastern Europe, ex-USSR:
WHO.
COPENHAGEN -- Poverty levels have exploded in central and eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union, according to a report by the World Health
Organisation published
Blau
Bill Lear wrote:
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On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 13:20:19 (-0400) Joel Blau writes:
The best resource to answer your questions is the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. They do a state-by-statebreakdown of poverty rates. The new rate comes
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002 at 13:20:19 (-0400) Joel Blau writes:
The best resource to answer your questions is the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities. They do a state-by-state
breakdown of poverty rates. The new rate comes out 9/30, but that's a
national number,and it usually takes
. In particular, the context of poverty rates
among black persons, racism, and the resulting discrimination. I
looked at the statistical abstract of the US for 1996, and it had
poverty rates broken down by race, and by state, but not by race and
state. The last ratio I could find for th US was about 11
The best resource to answer your questions is the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities. They do a state-by-state
breakdown of poverty rates. The new rate comes out 9/30, but that's a
national number,and it usually takes a while to
cross-section it.
Joel Blau
Bill Lear wrote:
A recent
http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/count.pdf
How Not to Count the Poor
Sanjay Reddy and Thomas Pogge
To this non-economist, this looks like really good solid stuff. Thanks
for forwarding it, Ian.
Ian Murray wrote:
http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/count.pdf
How Not to Count the Poor
Sanjay Reddy and Thomas Pogge
Sunday July 7, 7:36 pm Eastern Time
Reuters Business Report
Globalization Has Helped Poor, Study Says
By Jeremy Gaunt
LONDON (Reuters) - Far from creating poverty as critics claim, rapid
globalization of the world economy has sliced the proportion of abject poor
across the planet, according
Sunday July 7, 7:36 pm Eastern Time
Reuters Business Report
Globalization Has Helped Poor, Study Says
By Jeremy Gaunt
LONDON (Reuters) - Far from creating poverty as critics claim, rapid
globalization of the world economy has sliced the proportion of abject poor
across the planet, according
Title: child poverty in the U.S.
New York TIMES/June 13, 2002
A Rise in Child Poverty Rates Is at Risk in U.S.
By JEFF MADRICK
THE sharp cut in welfare caseloads in recent years has forced many skeptics to acknowledge that the controversial reforms of 1996 had some merit. In addition
http://planningcommission.nic.in/artf.htm
Poverty Estimates for 1999-2000
Dr. N.C. Saxena
New Delhi, 22nd February, 2001
The Planning Commission has been estimating the incidence of poverty at
national and state level using the methodology contained in the report of
the Expert Group
.
The microloan technique, for example, originated in Bangladesh, giving tiny
loans to women to create tiny enterprises, gets certain communities more
effectively out of poverty than certain top-down development projects of
the kind traditionally favored by the international lending agencies.
On the other
] wrote:
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing Poverty Levels, Study
Shows
by Max B. Sawicky
27 March 2002 04:05 UTC
too bad advocates of LW think this study is trash
(on technical grounds).
mbs
CB: Who are said advocates ? What are the
technical failings
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing Poverty Levels, Study Shows
by Max B. Sawicky
27 March 2002 04:05 UTC
too bad advocates of LW think this study is trash
(on technical grounds).
mbs
CB: Who are said advocates ? What are the technical failings ?
^^^
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing Poverty Levels, Study Shows
by Max B. Sawicky
27 March 2002 04:05 UTC
too bad advocates of LW think this study is trash
(on technical grounds).
mbs
CB: Who are said advocates ? What are the technical failings ?
^^^
'Living
No doubt it is a politically useful 'man-bites-dog' story.
I would expect advocates to milk the study for all they can.
But as a word to those interested in the substance on an
intellectual level, my advice is there are much better
things to read.
mbs
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing Poverty
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing Poverty Levels, Study Shows
LABOR: BATTLE BETWEEN ADVOCATES AND BUSINESS OPPONENTS
OVER THE ISSUE HAS INTENSIFIED IN RECENT YEARS.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-18670mar14.story
March 14 2002
By NANCY CLEELAND
too bad advocates of LW think this study is trash
(on technical grounds).
mbs
'Living Wage' Laws Reducing Poverty Levels, Study Shows
- Original Message -
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Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: World Bank discussion on poverty and the environment
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The URL:
http://wbweb4
The following article on Hunger and Poverty in America, followed by an
accompanying Quotes on Hunger Amidst Plenty, will appear in the Dec. 15,
2001, issue of he Mid-Hudson (NY) Activist Newsletter and Action
Calendar
Anthony D'Costa wrote:
As starters I suggest reading
Pranab Bardhan's The Political Economy of Development in India (the most
recent edition). A slim and yet a very powerful book.
thanks for this (and other) pointers. i ordered the above book and
received it friday. it was a gripping
He rises at 5 a.m. for an hour of prayer and follows a monastic discipline praying
according to an ancient schedule that follows the rhythms of the day, the offices of
lauds, vespers, compline along with set periods for meals, work, spiritual reading
and writing.
Until this month, when he
Sid Shniad sent this:
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
about 35,615 children died from conditions of starvation on September
11,
2001
RELEVANT STATISTICS
* Victims: 35,615 children (source: FAO)
* Where: poor countries
* Special tv programs: none
*
David S.'s reply to Charles:
I am still trying to think this through. There are two concepts here.
First, we have the concept of poverty, or the absence of the basic
necessities of life. However, as I think you agree, even this concept is
relative. Is a stone-age man impoverished
---
David S. writes:
I am trying to think this through. Let me summarize my understanding of the
discussion. Your original argument was that the elimination of private
property would eliminate material want.
(((
CB: Yes, basically I am using poverty and material want
In reply to Charles:
I am still trying to think this through. There are two concepts here.
First, we have the concept of poverty, or the absence of the basic
necessities of life. However, as I think you agree, even this concept is
relative. Is a stone-age man impoverished? Is a bourgeois man
value almost every week as the
Turkish lira plummets against the dollar. Since the start of a February
financial crisis, the lira has lost about half its worth.
Half of the country's 65 million people live on a monthly income of less
than $200, far below the poverty line of $474 a month for a family
: Equity in home
Part 3: Many ways to lose
Poor victimized by high car loans
Complaints surge against firms getting high auto loan rates
Car loan tips
How to recognize predatory lending
Sunday, August 19, 2001
Families in poverty pay more to survive
Expensive groceries, credit sap resources
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/
Merchants of Misery
How Corporate America Profits from Poverty
Edited by Michael Hudson
Introduction by Rep. Maxine Waters
http://www.commoncouragepress.com/hudson_misery.html
Trying to find a cite for a book on the same, from the early 70's, with
an intro
SCMP
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
China's poverty time bomb
CALUM MACLEOD
Red-faced from cheap alcohol, Mr Chen paces angrily on Tiger Hill. ''What
socialist country?'' he shouts. ''China is a society for the rich!'' Inside
the former army barracks behind him, Mr Chen, who declines to give his full
n
1989, recalls an incident he says shows that Indonesian poverty
numbers were "pulled completely out of thin air." He recalls
President Suharto insisting in public that poverty had dropped to
30 million, even though the World Bank was in the middle of a three
year study that showed 60 m
. _The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the
poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist
production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming
power of society constituted their limit _ (emphasis CB) "
I wrote:
In "normal" times, the capitalists purchase the surplus commodities as
luxury consumption goods or investment goods or wasteful goods, so this
basic realization problem isn't realized (as it were).
Charles writes:
How many cars can a capitalist drive and buy ? How much toilet paper,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/01 02:18PM
I wrote:
In "normal" times, the capitalists purchase the surplus commodities as
luxury consumption goods or investment goods or wasteful goods, so this
basic realization problem isn't realized (as it were).
Charles writes:
How many cars can a capitalist
I wrote:
In "normal" times, the capitalists purchase the surplus commodities as
luxury consumption goods or investment goods or wasteful goods, so this
basic realization problem isn't realized (as it were).
Charles writes:
How many cars can a capitalist drive and buy ? How much toilet
ng to. He just didn't think the system would allow
this process to continue without crisis forever.
CB: I recall you mentioning that a number of weeks ago. I will study it.
What about the following quote from Vol. III:
"_The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the pover
. Poverty, time and place: variation
in excess mortality across selected U.S. populations, 1980-1990. Journal
of Epidemiology and Community Health, in press.
Geronimus AT, Bound J, Waidmann TA Health inequality, family caretaking
systems, and population variation in fertility-timing. Paper
Gene, yes, he is good. I have lots of other references. That was just a
snippet.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:25:30PM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote:
Navarro at Johns Hopkins has written about this I think.
Gene Coyle
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
JW, Perloff JD, Peterson JA, and Kletke PR. Medicaid in the
inner city: the case of maternity care in Chicago. The Milbank Quarterly
68(1): 111-141, 1990.
Geronimus AT, Bound J, Waidmann TA. Poverty, time and place: variation
in excess mortality across selected U.S. populations, 1980-1990. Journal
leaving public
assistance. The state Department of Transitional Assistance gave an overly rosy
picture of life after welfare in a report last year, and downplayed more disturbing
statistics, the university's Center on Hunger and Poverty said.
''What was disturbing to me was that the DTA wasn't
. Here we have a kid whose education was cut off along with his
father's arms. Nevertheless we have apologists who tell us that
countries like China can't "afford" decent working conditions...
Peter
Blinded by Poverty: The Dark Side of Economic Reform
The New York Times, November 21, 2000
By
En relación a [PEN-L:1675] Re: Re: Re: Aux armes citoyens! (was,
el 10 Sep 00, a las 18:22, Brad DeLong dijo:
What makes the Marseillaise "creepy" rather than "barbarous" is that
it spends more lines making it very clear what the stakes are--liberty
vs. tyranny--than it does calling for
En relación a [PEN-L:1684] Re: Re: Re: Re: A slight advantage o,
el 10 Sep 00, a las 21:53, Brad DeLong dijo:
the US government (which
also allied with the Argentine junta until the latter came into
conflict with the UK, a more important ally).
The Argentinian Junta never was
I wrote:
the US government (which
also allied with the Argentine junta until the latter came into
conflict with the UK, a more important ally).
Brad DeLong writes:
The Argentinian Junta never was *my* ally. But during the
Malvinas/Falklands War, it was Nestor's.
If you pay attention
The Argentinian Junta never was *my* ally. But during the
Malvinas/Falklands War, it was Nestor's.
The Argentinian Junta has never been an _ally_ of the imperialists,
Brad. They were your dutiful employees, the ones who cleared the way
for you and your ilk to transform Argentina into an
Well, this has been interesting...
It started, as you remember, with Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky's report of
..."outrageous
situations such as the one I recently saw at the elegant Sargento
Cabral square.
"This square is named after a semi-mythical character of early
Argentinian history, a
It takes mass struggle to end poverty
(from the Peoples Weekly World)
By Greg Godwin
A recent study entitled "Does a Rising Tide
Lift All Boats?" discredits the widely held belief that the highly celebrated economic
growth of the last decade has benefited working people as well a
Brad DeLong:
Third, I am struck by the extent to which the debate here has
recapitulated an eighteenth-century debate--admirably exposited by
Albert Hirschman in his book _the Passions and the
Interests_--between Voltaire (and others) and Edmund Burke (and
others). Voltaire maintained--as I
Hirschman's book is great. But if you look at the kind of contrasts
that doux commerce advocates tended to draw, they were between what they
saw as the innate civility of face-to-face market exchanges and what we
might *very* loosely call feudal manners -- relations of patronage and
sharp
From Brad to Nestor:
...Galtieri... discovered that in order to go ahead and win the war he had
to mobilize the most progressive forces in the country, he had to
organize a militant national front, he had to return the basic
control of economy to the hands of the State, he had to confront in
Brad wrote:
Third, I am struck by the extent to which the debate here has
recapitulated an eighteenth-century debate--admirably exposited by
Albert Hirschman in his book _the Passions and the
Interests_--between Voltaire (and others) and Edmund Burke (and
others). Voltaire maintained--as I
The book you're thinking of is LA REVOLUTION SOCIALISTE by Serge-Christophe
Kolm. I read the first half of it back when it came out. He felt that
revolutionizing production (via self-management) was more appropriate than
revolutionizing consumption (via expansion of the welfare state) -- better
Hirschman's book is great. But if you look at the kind of contrasts
that doux commerce advocates tended to draw, they were between what they
saw as the innate civility of face-to-face market exchanges and what we
might *very* loosely call feudal manners -- relations of patronage and
sharp
Yes, of course, because it does not come from a demonized as
Fascistic semicolonial people that had the guts to confront the
American imperialists for decades, but from another imperialist
country. If it is French, thus "civilized", it makes Brad feel
creepy. If it is Argentinian, that is
the US government (which
also allied with the Argentine junta until the latter came into
conflict with the UK, a more important ally).
The Argentinian Junta never was *my* ally. But during the
Malvinas/Falklands War, it was Nestor's.
Brad DeLong
En relación a [PEN-L:1475] Re: Re: A slight advantage of povert,
el 8 Sep 00, a las 7:43, Jim Devine dijo:
At 10:26 PM 09/07/2000 -0700, you wrote:
--Governments that throw people out of helicopters into the South
Atlantic have no business ruling anybody, let along waging war to
increase
From Brad to Nestor:
No, we wouldn't. We wouldn't particularly in a semicolony such as
Argentina, where the deeds of those you call "nationalist-
militaristic" were in fact deeds effected during a revolutionary war,
a war that carried the flags of the most modern ideas in the times
against
So as I said back at the beginning of this: it's much better to have
a square filled with banners from supermarkets competing to sell you
better food cheaper than one filled with statues teaching that dulce
et decorum pro patria mori...
Most country towns in Australia have a park where the
En relación a [PEN-L:1460] Re: Aux armes citoyens! (was A sligh,
el 8 Sep 00, a las 4:51, Brad De Long dijo:
Here's a song for lovers of liberty: La Marseillaise.
Yoshie
Touche...
It *has* always made me feel a little bit creepy...
Yes, of course, because it does not come from a
At 10:26 PM 09/07/2000 -0700, you wrote:
--Governments that throw people out of helicopters into the South Atlantic
have no business ruling anybody, let along waging war to increase the
number of people they rule.
what if they dump them into the South China Sea? Brad, you're threatening
to
En relación a [PEN-L:1454] Aux armes citoyens! (was A slight ad,
el 8 Sep 00, a las 3:16, Yoshie Furuhashi dijo:
Here's a song for lovers of liberty: La Marseillaise. Militant
patriotism at its most full-blooded. Nestor's description of an
Argentine nationalist icon sounds serene, with
En relación a [PEN-L:1354] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A slight,
el 6 Sep 00, a las 16:25, Brad DeLong dijo:
It is too long a story, but there has never existed a single "habit
of obedience" to those generals. Fear and hatred was what there
existed and exists. People here has never equated
En relación a [PEN-L:1354] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A slight,
el 6 Sep 00, a las 16:25, Brad DeLong dijo:
It is too long a story, but there has never existed a single "habit
of obedience" to those generals. Fear and hatred was what there
existed and exists. People here has never equated
En relación a [PEN-L:1399] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ,
el 7 Sep 00, a las 6:30, Brad De Long dijo:
En relación a [PEN-L:1354] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A slight, el 6
Sep 00, a las 16:25, Brad DeLong dijo:
It is too long a story, but there has never existed a single
"habit
Will you at least *think* about what the sources of the Junta's power
were, and how nationalist-militarist iconography reinforces them?
Not only I think about them, I have written lots on the issue, and
that monster you hate, nationalist-militaristic iconography, had to
do with them only in
En relación a [PEN-L:1168] Re: A slight advantage of poverty (w,
el 2 Sep 00, a las 7:49, Brad De Long dijo:
I would have thought that we would approve the replacement of
nationalist-militarist iconography--that you win honor by killing
others and dying for your hierarchical superiors
En relación a [PEN-L:1209] Re: Re: Re: A slight advantage of po,
el 3 Sep 00, a las 11:00, Brad De Long dijo:
En relación a [PEN-L:1168] Re: A slight advantage of poverty (w, el 2
Sep 00, a las 7:49, Brad De Long dijo:
I would have thought that we would approve the replacement
It is good to risk one's own life for revolution. And in the
battlefield (I ignore if you have ever had that experience, even that
of the modest battlefield of a square where your cherished and
respected political leaders, aged above 60, run to escape tear gas
and you can physically feel the
En relación a [PEN-L:1218] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A slight advanta,
el 4 Sep 00, a las 7:12, Brad De Long dijo:
It is good to risk one's own life for revolution. And in the
battlefield (I ignore if you have ever had that experience, even that
of the modest battlefield of a square where your
En relación a [PEN-L:1168] Re: A slight advantage of poverty (w,
el 2 Sep 00, a las 7:49, Brad De Long dijo:
I would have thought that we would approve the replacement of
nationalist-militarist iconography--that you win honor by killing
others and dying for your hierarchical superiors
hile those in the poverty-striken Southern quarters being
abandoned to their (sad) luck. In the squares of the North, however,
the advertising mania crept quite fast from the small notices "It is
you and MoneyMakers Inc. who take care of this square" to outrageous
situations such as th
) gardened and
polished, while those in the poverty-striken Southern quarters being
abandoned to their (sad) luck. In the squares of the North, however,
the advertising mania crept quite fast from the small notices "It is
you and MoneyMakers Inc. who take care of this square" to outrageous
situat
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BBC REITH LECTURE: POVERTY AND GLOBALISATION
snip VANDANA SHIVA
Recently, I was visiting Bhatinda in Punjab because of an epidemic of
farmer suicides. Punjab used
cumstances of parents matter: increases
in the fractions of children with absent fathers and working mothers are
related to increases in many of the measures of maltreatment, as are
increases in the share of families with two non-working parents, and
those with incomes below 75 percent of the po
I understand that this phenomenon (poverty encouraging child abuse) has
been exaggerated, since child abuse by middle-class and upper-class folks
is often undetected or excused. But I don't have any sources for this
understanding. Also, I do think that it's relevant that welfare reform has
Jim:
Poverty does encourage child abuse, but since most of the attention of the
social welfare apparatus is directed at the poor, families who aren't poor
don't get investigated. I was a child protective worker in the Bronx 25 years
ago, and I think that during my 3 years, I saw maybe 4-5
t, as are
increases in the share of families with two non-working parents, and
those with incomes below 75 percent of the poverty line. We also
examine the links between family structure, welfare benefits, and child
maltreatment. Welfare programs affect the incentives of women and men
to work and to li
At 09:35 AM 2/7/2000 -0800, you wrote:
Can this research be easily recast as a predictive equation?
with a great deal of caution. people who are poor are under the gaze of
the state in far more ways than are people who aren't. you're watched.
for example, if you receive WIC, which is a
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