Poverty On The Rise?

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Term Paper Title	Poverty On The Rise?
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Poverty on the Rise?
     There is a very wide range of income for individuals and families.  This is why we
have people that are very wealthy which are referred to as the upper class and there is the
middle class that makes an average income, and the bottom of the income bracket lies the
people in poverty.  Poverty is a condition in which a person or family does not have the
means to satisfy basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.  Your race
does not matter, every race has people that are in poverty.  But as it is statistically shown,
different races have a different number of people in poverty.  In 1996, the federal
government established a minimum income level below which a person or family is
declared in “poverty.”  If a single person makes less than $7,995 then they are living in
poverty, and a family has to exceed $16,036 or are also in poverty.
     From 1996 to 1997 the poverty rate has decreased by .4%  In 1996, there was
36.5 million people at the poverty level and in 1997 the number of people in poverty
decreased to 35.6 million people.  Since a decade ago the poverty level has increased from
32.4 million people to as high as 39.3 million in 1993, but since 1993 the number of
people living in poverty has decreased to 35.6 million people.
     The percent of the population a decade ago below the poverty was 13.1%, which
has increases up to 15.1% but here recently the poverty rate is back down to 13.3%


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     Since the previous year the poverty rate was lower by .4% for the general
population.  The poverty rate of children under the age of eighteen has also decreased by
.6%.  The black poverty rate decreased the most from 28.4% to 26.5%.  The Asians and
Pacific Islanders had a decrease in their poverty rate by .5%.  The whites had the smallest
decrease out of all races because they decreased only by .2%.  There are many different
factors that contribute to the decreasing of the poverty rates, from the decrease of the
unemployment to the decrease in government income maintenance programs.
     A lot of the poverty population is made up of income-maintenance programs.  I
would like to talk about few of the programs that the government offers for people in
poverty.  Social insurance programs is the first.  There are many different types to the
social insurance program.  The first two are OASDHI and Medicare.  OASDHI is also
known as social security, which replaces wages lost after retirement.  Medicare provides
hospital insurance for th...

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