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To: tejek who wrote (251752)	11/11/2005 3:31:29 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574478

As poverty is measured, a third of NO is below the poverty level That much is probably true. Probably even worse now. and exists at an income level comparable to the third world community Maybe after the hurricane, certainly not before. You can be well below the poverty line and still be far above a third world income. Now that doesn't mean that a NO's resident makes the same salary as someone in El Salvador does but it does mean that their salary buys about the same amount of goods and services as that of the average El Salvadoran. Even in purchasing power comparisons the typical New Orleans resident before the storm, the typical New Orleans resident, or even the typical resident that was below the poverty level had an income much higher than that of either the average or the typical resident of a third world country. You are going off on a tangent that sounds strangely like gobbley gook. Providing another example of the same idea is not going off on a tangent, esp. if you keep it short. But if you don't like examples the basic idea will do. Measuring inequality is not measuring poverty. They are separate things. Tim