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...Government's statistical methods overstate the nation's population of poor people. The reason: the figures take into account only cash income and ignore the value of noncash benefits such as food stamps, free or discounted school lunches, public housing and subsidized medical care. But a new Census Bureau study released last week measured poverty both ways from 1979 to 1982 and found a sharp increase under either method...
Lingering double-digit inflation and high unemployment, not budget or benefit cuts, were largely to blame, asserted census officials. Nonetheless, on Capitol Hill, the study prompted House Democrats to introduce a bill that would raise the federal contribution to Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other major welfare programs by $ 10.5 billion a year...
According to the Bureau of the Census in 1984 some 34 percent of all Black Americans lived below the poverty line a rate almost three and a half times that of whites. More ominously the number of poor Blacks appears to be increasing in 1981 fully 45 percent of all Black children under age 18 were living below the poverty line Black leaders and intellectuals typically blame the continued existence of racial discrimination for the high rate of Black poverty. Yet given the fact that poverty appears to be on the increase in recent years, racism as a causal explanation...
...Amal's newly won prominence is long overdue. In 1932 the last official census established the Christians as Lebanon's largest group and justified an agreement guaranteeing them a dominant role in the government. By most estimates, however, the Shi'ites now outnumber all other factions, constituting roughly 40% of Lebanon's population of 3.5 million to 4 million. Until recently the Shi'ites have remained a silent underclass. Made up of impoverished farmers from the south and also of Beirut's urban poor, the Shi'ites long adhered to conservative Islamic teachings...
...HERO," writes Daniel J. Boorstin '34 "is Man the Discoverer." His discoverer-heroes are bold seafarers and careful clockmakers; they are census-takers and historians. Their daring feats to invent clocks and maps and dictionaries that light our way through the night of ignorance...