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Current immigration practices, both legal and illegal, operate like a system of trans-national welfare outreach bringing millions of fiscally dependent individuals into the U.S.
Households headed by persons without a high school diploma impose a significant fiscal burden on other taxpayers.
Next week the United States Census Bureau will release its annualreport on "poverty" stating, as it has for many years, that thereare some 31 million to 32 million poor Americans, a number greaterthan in 1965 when the War on Poverty began.
(Archived document, may contain errors) d d I 390 November 1, 1984 THE PROBLEMS OF MEASURING POVERTY INTRODUCTION Federal, state, and local governments last -year spent $107.5 billion on the major means-tested transf er programs--usually called we1fare.l According to the Census Bureau, 35.3 million Americans were "in poverty" that year. If this cash had been given outright to those poor, it would have averaged $3,048 per person, or a grant of $12,193 to a family of fo ur--well above the 1983 poverty.thresho1d of $10,1
By every reasonable set of indicators -- demand, supply, and market-- America is not suffering a national housing shortage.