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 h0A5vFP06362; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:57:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:57:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <01b301c2b86b$ec37b340$7501a8c0@MCORLEY> 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: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1004] January is Poverty Awareness Month X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1965 Lines: 50 Hi, All: The following references are cross-posted from A-Librarian-At-Every-Table list. -Mary Ann Corley Nifl-povracelit List Moderator * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Nearly 33 million Americans have fallen into poverty - more people than a year ago, the highest number in years. What does it mean to the life of our nation to have so many people lost in a shadowy state of uncertainty and need? What does it mean to be poor in America - to be a resident of the forgotten state of poverty? Click on POVERTY TOUR on http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm Poverty USA site: http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/index.htm REGRESSIVE TAXES FOR POOR & MIDDLE-CLASS The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has just released "Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States."By an overwhelming margin, most states tax their middle- and low-income families far more heavily than the wealthy, the study finds.Most states require their poor and middle-income taxpayers to pay the most taxes as a share of income -- and the ways in which states have managed their budgets during the last decade have made this problem worse." State-by-state reports and "Top Ten" lists. http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/whopays.htm POOR HAVE FALLEN OUT OF POLITICAL FAVOR Despite the outpouring of support and generosity for the poor during the holiday season, Americans don't really seem to care about low-income people. Despite reports that hunger and homelessness have increased dramatically over the last year (U.S. Conference of Mayors report), raising the issue of poverty in America has fallen out of political favor. "We have indeed slipped into class warfare in our country, but it is being fought top down, as the well off harvest new gains for themselves from the powerless poor. And no number of charitable gestures, as admirable as they are, can make up the difference." http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/4825227.htm
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