[lit-ideas] Up from poverty...

  • From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 22:37:23 -0400

So many numbers...
I clearly remember when my father made $7,000 a year. I was maybe 11 or so, and I remember thinking (gasp...maybe saying) that I didn't feel that I got my $1,000 out of that (there were seven of us in the family). Remember "Kids Say The Darnedest Things"?


And then when I first came to Canada, I worked as a file clerk for the T. Eaton Company and made $3,000. My husband worked for the U of T as a rat lab technician and earned $6,000. We were so rich, we sent our laundry out to be done. Those were the days...
Ursula


John McCreery wrote:


According to the U.S. Census Bureau (the top Google hit for "U.S. median income":

http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/4person.html

the median income of U.S. families in 2003 (the last year for which
data are provided) was $65,093, up from $56,061 in 1998 and $14,747 in
1977 (the earliest year for which data are provided).

Another document (http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf) reports that

Real median household income
showed no change between 2003 and
2004.1 Both the number of people in
poverty and the poverty rate
increased between 2003 and 2004.


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