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Throughout the day, O'Connor will be following events across the world, as countries such as New Zealand pass the critical Y2K threshold first...
Apparently, $19,500 a year ain?t what it used to be. According to the New York Times, the U.S. Census Bureau has decided to reevaluate the parameters of poverty, and is contemplating a threshold $3,000 higher than the previous ceiling of $16,600 for a family of four. The poverty line, a singularly subjective definition of what it means to be poor in America, was established during the Johnson administration. Adjusted regularly for inflation, it serves as a primary indicator of the economy?s health - the fewer people under it, the better - and also establishes which families...
Changing the poverty line also threatens to have an effect on America?s self-image: A family making $18,000 this year could be pushed under the line if a higher threshold is established. This means millions more families suddenly become "poor," and, as a result, the country?s widely accepted affluence and the shrinking of its poor population are called into question. The future of the Census Bureau?s investigation may depend primarily on semantics. "The Census Bureau is asking ?What is poor today??" says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "This is a qualitative shift; we live...
...Rhodes has changed a lot," Berger said, "They are looking for only basic evidence of physical vigor. The threshold is as low as interest in amateur hiking...
...bedouin farmers that roam the wadis, is suffering from a summer drier than most. The Fertile Crescent in its entirety received a record low amount of rainfall this past winter. Hydraulicists constantly make guest appearances on radio and television talk shows, issuing warnings about some obscure "red line" threshold of water supply, a minimum that we are precariously nearing. Here, in the privileged middle-class West Jerusalem, with a lifestyle and surroundings very much like Boston, these warning fall on deaf ears. And, for many of the Palestinians, especially the inhabitants of villages that draw their water from wells, statistics...