CHAPTER 21  POVERTY, INCOME, DISCRIMINATION

 POVERTY

LINKS FOR US POVERTY  THRESHOLD DATA FROM US BUREAU OF THE CENSUS:  

For US for 2004 by size of household

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/threshld/04prelim.html

Historical (1959 -2003) data on poverty by characteristic and region

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/histpovtb.html

By County within State (latest year 2002)

http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/saipe/saipe.cgi

POVERTY GUIDELINES AS DEVELOPED BY HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES

By number of persons in household for 2005

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/05poverty.shtml

INCOME

HOUSEHOLD INCOME DATA DEVELOPED BY US BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

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

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