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own for 2nd year
ASHING ION (AP) — The na-
lon’s poverty rate declined for the
|(md consecutive year as economic
jprovement helped Americans’ in-
>n e to grow, the Census Bureau
Sported Tuesday.
B'he study found 14.0 percent of
xious visa Ajpericans living in poverty in 1985,
ug in ihtBvn from 14.4 percent a year ear-
ront ofilfl. At the same time, real — or in-
■ion-adjusted — income of Ameri-
■ families increased 1.3 percent,
^the third consecutive increase, the
^Ufeau said.
■We’re out of the recession now;
it's a better time,” said Gordon
-j n L,jGtecn, acting chief of the bureau’s
1 |(J[ jPopulation Division.
^ Bfhat assessment was questioned,
AOBvever, by Robert Fersh, executive
I Ufa Hector of the Food Research and
jAdtion Center, an advocacy group
Kssing for improved social pro-
i (AP)-. grains.
won two[iiB'We are deeply concerned that
trayalofp Ihiee years into the recovery, the
J Tverty level remains at a high rate.
|d given the state of the economy,
spects for improvement are
n,” Fersh said.
He called for more job training
[d other social programs.
|Green, however, contended that
improvements in the nation’s
inomy are spreading out, affect-
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The drop in poverty was not as
large as occur reel between 1983 and
1984, when the share of Americans
below the poverty level dropped
from 15.2 percent to 14.4 percent
after having risen from 15.0 percent
in 1982, Green told reporters.
“Still, it is the right trend,” he said.
The 1985 poverty rate represents
33.1 million people living in poverty,
down from 33.7 million in 1984.
The 1985 poverty threshold
ranges from an annual income of
$5,469 for an individual to $22,083
for a family of nine or more. The
once-typical American family of
four, the most often-cited Figure, has
a poverty threshold of $ 10,989.
Median family income in 1985
was $27,740, the report said, up 4.9
f sercent from 1984. After adjusting
or inflation of 3.6 percent, it rep
resented a real increase of 1.3 per
cent in Americans’ income, the bu
reau said. That represented the
third annual increase in real family
income. Median income means half
of all families earn more than that
amount and half less.
Other findings of the new Census
Bureau study of Americans income
and poverty status included:
• Blacks had the highest poverty
rate at 31.3 percent, but that was
down from 33.8 percent in 1984.
The poverty rate for whites dipped
from 11.5 percent to 11.4 percent.
For Hispanics the rate edged up
slightly, from 28.4 percent to 29.0
percent.
• For the elderly, the poverty rate
edged up slightly, from 12.4 percent
to 12.6 percent.
• The Northeast had the largest
drop in poverty, the rate there fall
ing from 13.2 percent to 11.6 per
cent as the economic recovery was
most significant in this area.
The South had the highest pov
erty rate in 1985, 16 percent, down
from 16.2 percent. In the Midwest,
the rate went from 13.1 percent to
13.0 percent, and in the West it fell
from 14.1 percent to 13.9 percent.
• Per capita income was $11,670
for whites, up 2.0 percent; $6,840
for blacks, up 4.9 percent; and
$6,610 for Hispanics, statistically un
changed.
• Married-couple families had
the top median income at $31,100,
up 1.4 percent. Income was $13,660
for households headed by a female
with no husband present, not a sta
tistically significant change.
• Households headed by some
one with five or more years of col
lege had the greatest increase in in
come, up 4.6 percent to a median of
$50,530. For people with four years
of college, income rose 2.4 percent.
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association advises public
to reduce cholesterol, fats
mnns in -■WASHINGTON (AP) — The
ending pfnM ner i can Heart Association an-
in asup[x.{tB uncec i a major revision of its in-
or “The MiBential dietary guidelines Tuesday,
■th specific advice on reducing cho-
Rogcr Di lejterol and fats and recommenda-
ork CityesiB ns on how people can limit use of
led k.|o,|| Um and alcohol,
mg of Along with reducing fats, the new
tyed a midBideimes say that Americans
om 198M!(Bould cut sodium intake by eating
for ComfoitBs than a level teaspoon of salt da-
(1 hisactir. 'ill and hold their alcohol consump-
I School of DiB n to less than the equivalent two
irtford, Cot;
jroductions
beers or two glasses of wine each
day.
The American diet, high in fats,
sodium and calories, remains a ma
jor factor in the development of
heart and blood vessel disease de
spite a 29 percent drop in the heart
disease death rate over the last 20
years, the association said.
“More than 63 million Americans
suffer from one or more forms of
heart and blood vessel disease, and
this year almost 1 million people will
die as a.result of cardiovascular dis-
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inated with the AIDS virus have
been found in two African na
tions, but there is no evidence
that they pose a threat to humans,
a leading French researcher said
Tuesday.
Most of the 80 mosquitoes,
cockroaches, ant-lions, tsetse flies
and other insects tested from
Zaire and the Central African Re
public were infected with the
deadly virus, said Dr. Jean-
Claude Chermann of the Pasteur
Institute.
In a telephone interview with
The Associated Press, he said the
presence of the virus “reinforces
the idea of possible AIDS trans
mission by this path,” but epide
miological studies have yet to find
evidence that the disease has
spread to humans from insects.
Those studies have shown con
clusively that school-age children,
who are frequently outdoors and
thus subject to mosquito bites, do
not get AIDS unless they ac
quired it from their mothers at
birth.
“Epidemiology is very clear
about that,” he said. “There is no
way of transmission to humans by
mosquitoes or other insects.”
The researcher said his study,
to be published next week in the
journal of the Paris Academy of
Sciences, demonstrates the “exis
tence of a natural reservoir for
this virus” that could prove help
ful in AIDS research.
Chermann and two colleagues
at the Pasteur Institute are
among those who discovered the
AIDS virus. His latest findings
were announced at the 14th In
ternational Cancer Conference
this week in Budapest, Hungary.
AIDS, acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, makes the im
mune system unable to resist dis
ease, and there is no known cure.
It was identified first in male ho
mosexuals, hemophiliacs and in
travenous drug users.
The virus can be transmitted
by sexual contact, sharing of con
taminated needles by drug users,
transfusions of blood or blood
products or infection from
mother to child near the time of
birth.
According to Chermann, it is
too early to tell whether discovery
of the virus in African insects
could help in the fight against
AIDS.
The receptor for the AIDS vi
rus — the area on the outside of
the cell where the virus enters —
“is very specific” and it could
prove valuable if the virus recep
tor in insects proves to be similar
to that in humans, he said.
“If it’s the same receptor in an
insect, we could make an anti
body” that would prevent the
spread of the disease in humans,
the researcher said.
eases,” said Dr. W. Virgil Brown ot
Mount Sinai Medical School in New
York, past chairman of the commit
tee which drafted the new
guidelines.
Brown said Americans, partic
ularly those who are well-educated
and health-conscious, are moving to
ward the heart association’s diet
goals first established 25 years ago.
But more needs to be done to per
suade other segments of the popula
tion to switch to balanced, lower-cal
orie diets containing a variety of
foods low in fats, cholesterol and so
dium, he said at a news briefing.
The new recommendations em
phasize consuming or restricting
certain kinds of foods in proportion
to the total calories a person needs
each day to maintain his or her ideal
weight.
Brown said past guidelines fo
cused too much on eating or not eat
ing certain amounts of food and may
not have been realistic for people
who consume smaller portions be
cause of body size, particularly
women.
Currently, about 40 percent of the
calories the average American con
sumes come from fats. The new
guidelines say that total fat intake
should be less than 30 percent, down
from the 30 to 35 percent recom
mended in the previous guidelines
issue in 1978.
The new recommendations said
saturated fats, identified as those
that remain solid at room tempera
ture, should make up no more than
10 percent of total calories.
Cholesterol intake should be
about 100 milligrams per 1,000 cal
ories consumed each day and not ex
ceed 300 milligrams, about the
amount found in one egg.
Sodium consumption, which is
linked to high blood pressure,
should be restricted to one gram per
1,000 calories consumed and not ex
ceed 3 grams, the amount found in
one level teaspoon, or 5 grams, of
salt, the association said.
Since widely publicized studies in
dicate those who drink moderately
have less heart disease than those
who abstain, the new guidelines ad
dress alcohol consumption for the
first time.
If people consume alcohol, the as
sociation said, they should not ex
ceed one and a half ounces of pure
alcohol daily, or the amount found
in two 12-ounce beers.
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