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Friday. September 4, 1992
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Number of poor hits 27-year high
WASHINGTON — The tightening recession placed more than 2 million people in poverty in 1991, the Census Bureau said yesterday. The number of people officially categorized by the government as poor reached a 27-year high.
The Associated Press
Last year, during the depths of the recession, 35.7 million people were listed as poor. In 1991, the poor were 14.2 percent of the population, up from 13.5 percent the year before.
The government counts people as poor if their income falls below the national poverty line. Last year a family of four earning $13,924 was poor. So was an individual earning $6,932 or less.
U. S. citizens in general earned less in 1991 than the year before. The government said mediated household income, percent to, $30,126 after-adjusting for.
The poverty numbers immediately became ammunition in the presidential campaigns, and the Bush administration was forced to defend its record.
The Republican Bush administration defended its record.
income and on poverty levels," said White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. "We have tried to target a number of programs in the last couple of years particularly to those problems, knowing that the recession would have a deleterious effect."
"Certainly I think we have to expect that the recession would have a significant and serious impact on
Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton attacked.
"Today's poverty figures are yet another terrible indication of the devastation of 12 years of Republican rule," said Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos. "Working Americans are becoming poorer because George Bush is doing nothing for them."
Your chances of being poor increased if you were Hispanic; under 18 years of age; did not live in the suburbs; lived in the South; or lived alone.
Women were more likely to be poor than men. One woman in six lived in poverty, compared to one man in eight.
Women are especially vulnerable financially when their marriages break up and they are left with the kids. Seventeen percent of families headed by women are poor.
Mrs. Loews, 36, mother of three in Stamford, Conn., fell from middle-class living into poverty when she was separated from her husband last year. She is preparing to send her children
"I had to buy sneakers for them this week, so I couldn't buy food," she said, asking that her first name not be used.
back to school.
Her children ask "Why is this happening to us, and I can't give them an answer," she said. "It's degrading. You're in this position you never thought you'd be in."
Graduating from high school was the surrest way to avoid poverty, said Dana Feinberg, the Census Bureau's housing and household economics chief.
"Unfortunately, there's more bad news ahead," said Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington research group. "A further substantial jump in poverty is virtually certain in 1992, since the unemployment rate is now well above 1901 levels."
Two poor U.S. citizens out of five age 15 and older worked. But fewer than one in 10 held a full-time, year-
nondob.
The last time so many people lived below the poverty line was 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" sharply reduced the number of poor.
The Census Bureau numbers were based on a survey of 60,000 house-
Growing poor
People living in poverty
Poverty rate
SOURCE: Census Bureau
Claims for jobless benefits at 2-year low
Knight-Ridder Tribune
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — New claims for unemployment benefits in mid-August held near a two-year low for the second consecutive week, the government said yesterday, offering hope that the nation's job market is perking up.
The number of claims increased a less-than-expected 3,000 to 386,000 during the week ending Aug. 22, said officials from the Department of Labor. Before the previous week, the claims number had not dipped below 400,000 since October 1990, early in the recession.
Meanwhile, the nation's largest retailers reported mostly modest increases in August sales as Hurricane Andrew depressed results in the South, and a late Labor Day delayed back-to-school shopping.
Auto companies manufacturing in the United States reported an 8.3 percent increase in vehicles sold during the last 10 days of August. But a21.7 percent jump in light truck sales masked an anemic 4 percent rise in cars sold.
And two reports on the second quarter — one on workers' productivity, the other on mortgage delinquencies — showed the economy struggling.
at a healthy seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2 percent, building on an even bigger gain in the first quarter, the Department of Labor said.
The productivity of non-farm workers increased
But economists said the figure largely reflected employers' decision to defer hiring in a soft economy and to work their existing labor force harder.
The Mortgage Bankers Association of America said the percentage of homeowners 30 or more days behind on their mortgage payments jumped to 4.77 percent in the second quarter from 4.52 percent in the first three months of the year.
Officials of the association said the increase would have been even worse if lower mortgage rates had not reduced the monthly payments of millions of workers.
Wyss and other analysts said that yesterday's jobless claims report was a hopeful sign that the economy, after stalling at midyear, was on an upward path again and that the nation's unemployment rate might continue to improve.
Despite five consecutive quarters of economic growth through June, the unemployment rate continued to rise, hitting an eight-year high of 7.8 percent in June.
It edged down to 7.7 percent in July, and economists expect a report being released today to show a further decrease to 7.6 percent in August.
When claims fell to 383,000 during the week ending Aug. 15 from 474,000 the week before, many analysts were skeptical. They said the big swing
simply might have been a rebound from a surge caused by a temporary shutdown at General Motors Corp. factories. But they were reassured that the improvement held during the latest week
"It's an important number and if we get one or two more weeks of it, it will confirm that the labor market is stabilizing at the minimum and perhaps moving in the direction of acceleration," said economist Thomas Carpenter of ASB Capital Management in Washington.
A moving four-week average of claims, which smoothes out the weekly fluctuations, fell to 411,500, from 432,250. It was the lowest in five weeks.
Economists warn, however, that claims probably will surge temporarily again after employees working for hurricane-destroyed businesses in Florida and Louisiana file for benefits.
No states during the latest week reported an increase of 1,000 or more claims. Four states reported declines greater than 1,000: Michigan, 2,245; Virginia, 1,293; Tennessee, 1,195, and Illinois, 1,134.
Also, the Labor Department cautioned that recent claims figures probably were held down artificially by legislation passed by Congress in July. It allows some claimants to file under a special emergency unemployment program whose participants are not counted in the usual weekly release.
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