From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America: "We're Number One" in Childhood Poverty
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Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:00:12 GMT

The Decline of America: "We're Number One" in Childhood Poverty

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        Percentage of children living in poverty 1984-1987:(3)
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                                     CHILDREN          
               COUNTRY              IN POVERTY         
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               United States           20.4            

[twice the second highest:]

               Canada                   9.3            
               Australia                9.0            

               United Kingdom           7.4            

               France                   4.6            

               Netherands               3.8            
               Germany                  2.8            
               Sweden                   1.6            

Source: Timothy M. Smeeding, "U.S. Poverty and Income Security Policy
in a Cross National Perspective, October 1991, Luxembourg, October,
1991, Luxembourg Income Study, working paper 70.

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From page 74 of:

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   

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The Decline of America: "We're Number One" in Billionaires



  Number of individual and family fortunes worth $1 billion or
 more, and billionaire fortunes per 10 million population, 1991:

COUNTRY             BILLIONAIRES   PER 10 MILLION PEOPLE

United States            96                 3.8
Japan                    41                 3,3
Germany (unified)(4)     40                 5.1
Canada                    9                 3.4
France                    9                 1.6
Hong Kong                 7                12.2
Italy                     6                 1.0
Switzerland               6                 9.0
Saudi Arabia              6                 3.5
United Kingdom            6                 1.0
Taiwan                    5                 2.4

Sources (for chart and text): Forbes, July 23, 1990, July 22, 1991, and
October 21, 1991.


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