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Defining the poverty line:A political queastion
Poverty is an enduing problem that must be addressed by all modern societiesIn fact,some ethicists say a civilization can be judged by how well it treats its least fortunate.By this measure,the United states has much to be proud of.On a national level,the United states has done remarkable work to decrease the suffering of the poor by subsidizing food,housing,and education,and even by giving money directly to those who need it the most.Still,even in the public sector,projects have to be evaluated to see if they are effective.No one can measure the benefits of aid without defining what poverty is,and when someone has been lifted out of it.This leads to one very political question:How exactly should poverty be measured?
The question of poverty is extrenely complex.Should it be considered absolute-as a simple matter of the availability of food and shelter-or should it be relative to the goods and services enjoyed by the society as a whole?In other words,if a person can afford a DVD player but not to live in a safe neighbor-hood,is that person poor?Certainly something as fluid as the economy can affect any number of forces to cause financial suffering—sometimes quite suddenly.Still,according to our federal government,there is a specific measure,the “poverty line”that answers the queastion.Such a measure was devised in 1963 by government economist Mollie Orshansky,then working for the Social Security Administration under the jurisdiction of the Office of Management and Budgest.
Orshansky’s statistical measurement was one small part of the federal government’s plan to attack the difficult national economic conditions that were hurting millions of Americans in the early 1960s.President Lyndon Johnson,labeled the plan government’s “War on Poverty”,and it led to such national poverty threshold from a Department of Agriculture study outlining the cost of nutritionally adequate meals.
还有,没打完,就打上来,先翻译了前面先谢谢,
我提了两个问题,分别把这文章做两次打上了,这里就先穿插最后一段吧,If reform of the measure of poverty used by society is an obvious need,it remains to be seen why such reform has not been forthcoming.The answer lies in the very politica that caused the measure to be created in the first place.Any change in the measured poverty level of society is an indicator of economic health within that society,and no president has been willing to increase the perceived amount of poverty for a statistical recalculation,no matter how justified.Indeed,some economists say that updating the poverty measure would increase the number of those considered poor,and therefore eligible for government aid,by as much as 2 percentage points.That may not seen significant,but in real terms it means an additional several million people are living below the “poverty line”-whether we count them or not.
Defining the poverty line:A political queastion
Poverty is an enduing problem that must be addressed by all modern societiesIn fact,some ethicists say a civilization can be judged by how well it treats its least fortunate.By this measure,the United states has much to be proud of.On a national level,the United states has done remarkable work to decrease the suffering of the poor by subsidizing food,housing,and education,and even by giving money directly to those who need it the most.Still,even in the public sector,projects have to be evaluated to see if they are effective.No one can measure the benefits of aid without defining what poverty is,and when someone has been lifted out of it.This leads to one very political question:How exactly should poverty be measured?
The question of poverty is extrenely complex.Should it be considered absolute-as a simple matter of the availability of food and shelter-or should it be relative to the goods and services enjoyed by the society as a whole?In other words,if a person can afford a DVD player but not to live in a safe neighbor-hood,is that person poor?Certainly something as fluid as the economy can affect any number of forces to cause financial suffering—sometimes quite suddenly.Still,according to our federal government,there is a specific measure,the “poverty line”that answers the queastion.Such a measure was devised in 1963 by government economist Mollie Orshansky,then working for the Social Security Administration under the jurisdiction of the Office of Management and Budgest.
Orshansky’s statistical measurement was one small part of the federal government’s plan to attack the difficult national economic conditions that were hurting millions of Americans in the early 1960s.President Lyndon Johnson,labeled the plan government’s “War on Poverty”,and it led to such national poverty threshold from a Department of Agriculture study outlining the cost of nutritionally adequate meals.
还有,没打完,就打上来,先翻译了前面先谢谢,
我提了两个问题,分别把这文章做两次打上了,这里就先穿插最后一段吧,If reform of the measure of poverty used by society is an obvious need,it remains to be seen why such reform has not been forthcoming.The answer lies in the very politica that caused the measure to be created in the first place.Any change in the measured poverty level of society is an indicator of economic health within that society,and no president has been willing to increase the perceived amount of poverty for a statistical recalculation,no matter how justified.Indeed,some economists say that updating the poverty measure would increase the number of those considered poor,and therefore eligible for government aid,by as much as 2 percentage points.That may not seen significant,but in real terms it means an additional several million people are living below the “poverty line”-whether we count them or not.
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