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To: Neocon who wrote (141085)	4/28/2001 11:32:41 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If you post using the fixed font selection, table spacing is generally maintained. but if you preview or reedit you have to keep making sure you have the fixed font selected tom watson tosiwmee

To: Neocon who wrote (141085)	4/28/2001 11:05:00 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Neo: further gleanings from the census site-->> census.gov You got poverty numbers from 97. If you just change the year in the URL you can probably get whatever year you want. This is part of a press release from '96. . - Before 1994, the South had the highest regional poverty rate. Since that year the West has experienced a poverty rate not significantly different from that of the South 15.4 percent for the West and 15.1 percent for the South in 1996.

To: Neocon who wrote (141085)	4/28/2001 11:16:23 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

More census data on poverty 1997-99: Emphasis mine: census.gov Poverty Using three-year averages (1997-1999), poverty rates ranged from 7.6 percent in Maryland to 20.8 percent in New Mexico. The poverty rate in Maryland was not statistically different from the rates in 14 other states. New Mexico's rate was not statistically different from the rates for Louisiana and the District of Columbia, although higher than the rates for all other states. Eight out of 10 (81 percent) of the net decline in the number of poor occurred in central cities of metropolitan areas, where 3 out of 10 people reside and 4 out of 10 poor people live. The poverty rate for families in 1999 declined to a 20-year low of 9.3 percent; the rates for married-couple (4.8 percent) and female-householder (27.8 percent) families both were record lows. The number and percentage of poor non-Hispanic White and Hispanic families fell in 1999 to 25- and 20-year lows, respectively. African American families had no change in the number of their poor or in their poverty rate. Despite the drop in child poverty, children under age 6 remained particularly vulnerable to this condition; those living in families with a female householder and no husband present experienced a poverty rate of 50.3 percent, more than five times the rate for children under 6 in married-couple families (9.0 percent).