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- Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (VII)
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- The Decline of America: "We're Number One" in Elderly in Poverty
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- Percentage elderly living in poverty 1984-1987:(3)
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- ELDERLY
- COUNTRY IN POVERTY
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- United States 10.9
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- [More than twice of 2nd worst:]
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- United Kingdom 5.2
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- France 4.5
- Sweden 4.3
- Australia 4.0
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- Netherands 3.4
- Germany 2.8
- Canada 2.2
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- Source: Timothy M. Smeeding, "U.S. Poverty and Income Security Policy in a
- Cross National Perspective, October 1991, Luxembourg, October, 1991,
- Luxembourg Income Study, working paper 70.
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- From page 74 of:
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- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
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- New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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- "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."
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- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
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