Bishaw, Alemayehu (contributor); Iceland, John (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
At the close of the 20th century,
12.4 percent of the U.S. population, or
33.9 million people, reported 1999 fami-
ly … on page 2 and the
poverty thresholds used are
in Table 1.
Declines in poverty between
1989 and 1999 were regis-
tered for ….7 percentage points, from 18.3 per-
cent in 1989 to 16.6 percent in 1999.
Despite declines, the child poverty rate
in 1999 still …