Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ho95b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!mhuxj!houxm!ho95b!ran From: ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: 15% poor Message-ID: <282@ho95b.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 14:02:48 EST Article-I.D.: ho95b.282 Posted: Fri Dec 21 14:02:48 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:30:00 EST Organization: AT&T-Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 17 Regarding the statistics that show that the poor (as defined by the government) have remained steady at about 15% of the population, despite food stamps, welfare, etc.: Maybe the government definition is that you are poor if you make less than 85% of the population. Therefore, regardless of what you do, you'll *always* have 15% poor. Does anyone out there know what the official definition of "poor" is? -- ". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch." Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95b!ran) AT&T-Bell Labs