Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g8UBXvX00364; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <6CC22F24.5FFFD43E.0006CB3C@netscape.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: tjjhjr@netscape.net To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:916] RE: Poverty Rate Rises X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1367 Lines: 32 and PA still denies an equitable education to ESL students....thereby demonstraing it's public policy of choking off a child's life and preventing these kids from going on to college, gagging their futures to insure they will stay well within those statistics, and squashing anyone who tries to hekp them "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> wrote: >(U.S. Census Bureau, September 24, 2002) > >The number of people living in poverty rose by 1.3 million from 2000 to >2001, reaching 32.9 million people. The poverty >rate rose from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 11.7 percent in 2001, after falling >for four straight years. Children under 18 continued to have the highest >poverty rate (16.3 percent).Moreover, the average amount by which families' >incomes fell below the poverty line grew to the highest levels since data on >this were first collected in 1979. Real household median income declined >significantly, by 2.2 percent to $42,228,over the same period. >http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p60-219.pdf > > >* * * * * * * >-Mary Ann Corley >NFIL-Povracelit List Moderator > > > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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