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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday August 28, 1985
U.S. sees decline in poverty,
increase in income in 1984
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United
States experienced its first signifi
cant decline in poverty in nearly a
decade last year, as the improving
economy helped 1.8 million Ameri
cans climb above the poverty level,
the government said Tuesday.
“There was a very significant in
crease in income and decrease in
poverty in 1984,” said Gordon W.
Green Jr., who is in charge of socioe
conomic statistics for the Gensus Bu
reau.
Green said the national poverty
rate declined nearly one percentage
point to 14.4 percent, or 33.7 million
people living below the poverty line.
The poverty rate in 1983 was 15.3
percent, or 35.5 million people.
The poverty threshhold for an ur
ban family of four was $10,609 last
year, up from $10,178 a year earlier.
The rate is slightly lower for rural
families.
The drop in poverty had been
widely anticipated, and even critics
of the Reagan administration had
expected a significant improvement.
The U.S. Gonference of Mayors
said in a statement that it was
pleased the report “shows some pro-
- it add
But
Ided
gress in some areas
that poverty “continues at an unac
that poverty contn
ceptably high rate.”
Although there
were small de
clines in poverty in 1977 and 1978 —
before the sharp increases of the last
few years began — the last signifi
cant drop came between 1975 and
1976 when poverty dropped from
12.3 percent to 1 1.8 percent, accord
ing to bureau records.
At the same time the poverty rate
was falling, median family income
was growing by 3.3 percent to
$26,430 last year. That was the sec
ond annual increase, following some
years of declining real income in the
face of inflation and recession.
That income figure is nearly the
same as the median family income of
$26,480 reported for 1975, but
Green cautioned against defining
this as a stagnant income level.
Although the constant dollar fig
ure is similar, he said, there have
been significant changes in families
over the same period. The result is
more families headed by females
without husbands, and more single
people living alone, meaning that
families are smaller on average, with
fewer people sharing the same
amount of money.
Other major findings in the new
report included:
• The poverty rate among people
65 years and over dropped sharply,
falling 1.8 percentage points to 12.4
percent last year. Increases in Social
Security and Supplemental
Income benefits may havtl
counted for this, Green said
• Among children under 1||
poverty rate declined from 22!
cent in 1983 to 21.3 percent
rate among white children fell
17.5 percent to 16.5 percent,til
was unchanged for blacks at
percent.
• The overall poverty ratt
whites dropped from I2.2p
1 1.5 percent, while it fell from|
percent to 33.8 percent for
Among Hispanics, theratet
changed at about 28 percent.
• Two-earner families - a
42 percent of all families-k
median income of $31,7
pared with $20,290 for one-c
families.
• The poverty rate dedindl
tire South and the West, vrltiltf
were no significant changes i
Northeast and Midwest.
The rate for the South ini
was 16.2 percent, compared.
17.2 percent in 1983. For the lti|
was 13.1 percent in 1984,
irom 14.7 percent.
The Northeast had a 13.2ptrJ
poverty rate in 1984, comn
13.4 percent in 1983 and theli
west had 14.1 percent last years
pared with 14.6 percent in 19811
Three arrested for cafe massaa
Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador —
Three leftist guerrillas suspected of
participating in a cafe massacre in
which four U.S. Marines were killed
have been arrested and a fourth is
dead, President Jose Napoleon
Duarte said Tuesday.
At a news conference, Duarte
read a letter he sent to President
Reagan advising him of the arrests.
Duarte and members of the mili
tary high command, who flanked
the president at the news conference
at the executive mansion, refused to
say when, where or how the three
were captured.
A government communique later
identified those arrested and the
suspect killed as members of the
Central American Revolutionary
Workers’ Party, known by its Span
ish initials as the PRTC. It is the
smallest of five guerrilla groups in
the Farabundo Marti National Lib
eration Front coalition that is bat
tling the U.S.-backed governmnent.
Duarte’s letter to Reagan praised
the U.S. government for providing
“efficient and disinterested aid" to
Salvadoran authorities in tracking
down the suspects and making the
arrests. American help included the
cooperation of the FBI.
Gen. Adolfo Blandon, the chair
man of the armed forces Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said the arrests had
not been made when U.S. Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger an
nounced last month that those re
sponsible for the cafe massacres had
been killed or captured.
Blandon called the arrests “a
strong blow to terrorist organiza
tions” and said more arrests would
follow. He said other guerrillas
took part in the June 19 killiai
13 people at two sidewalk cafel
San Salvador have been idei
and are being sought.
Among the 13 slain by the
firing automatic weapons we
four Marine guards at the US.
bassy who were off duty
American businessmen who w
for a computer company.
T he Marines were identiW
the Pentagon as Sgt.
Handwork, 24, of Beavert
Ohio; Cpl. Gregory H. Weber,
Cincinnati; Sgt. Bobby J Did
27, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a
Patrick R. Kwiatkowski, 20,
sau, Wis.
The American businessmen
George Viney, 48, of Miami,
Robert Alvidrez, 47, of Lexis
Mass.
of 11
Detroit school district
averts teachers’ strike
Associated Press
School district and union negotia
tors in Detroit agreed to a tentative
contract Monday, averting a strike
by 11,500 teachers in a system with
292,000 students.
Students pondered the possibility
of extended vacations in Philadel
phia and Chicago, where teachers
had no contracts in place for the
coming year.
John Elliott, president of the De
troit Federation of Teachers, said he
expected his members to ratify a
proposed two-year pact calling for a
10 percent pay raise the first year
and a 5.5 percent boost the second
year.
Peter Gabriel, president of the Gi
rard Education Association, said tea
chers ir> Girard, Ohio returned to
the picket lines Monday after an
eight-hour bargaining session Sun
day failed to end the city’s first tea
cher strike.
The district’s acting superinten
dent, S. Paul Wright, said classes for
the city’s 1,860 students would start
two hours late with substitute teach
ers at the blackboards.
Gabriel said economic issues
prompted the strike, which began
Friday.
Iphia
ils ari
194,000 pupils are scheduled to be
gin Sept. 5, teachers are seeking pay
increases of 18 percent over three
years. The district has offered raises
of 14 percent, but in return wants
more control over teachers.
In Chicago, the teachers’ union
has vowed to strike Sept. 3, one day
before the start of classes, if there is
no agreement then.
Monument
to honor
Knlevel jump
Associated Press
TWIN FALLS, Idaho-
ert “Fvel” Knievel, the M
daredevil who tried to jump k
“skycycle” across mile-wide Sul
River Canyon 11 years ago,«
return to the scene of that«t
on Sept. 9.
Mike Dolton, manager ofil
Twin Falls Chamber of Cot
merce, said Monday that Knit'i]
says he plans to attend the detfo
tion of a marker in honor oftk
jump attempt across thecanyoil
“He told me he is making
transition from his former!
devil role ,to that of an artist J
he will bring some of his j
ings along,” Dolton said.
The chamber will place!
3,000-pound granite markers
Peri ine Memorial Bridge
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