1963 Poverty In America Special Report

Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1963 Poverty In America Special Report - 9-Page Vintage Article Original, vintage magazine articlePage Size: Approx. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2" (27 cm x 34 cm) each pageCondition: Good There is a world inside the UnitedStates where the American dream isdying. It is a world where, when it rainsal night, everyone gets up to move bedsaway from the leaks. Where there is noelectricity—but refrigerators are valued tokeep food safe from rats. Where regularlyat the end of the month whole familieslive on things like berries and bread.Where children in winter sleep on floorsin burlap bags and their lung X rays at age12 look like old men’s. Where studentsdrift hungry and apathetic through schooland their parents die 10 or 20 or 30 yearsearlier than their countrymen.These are the poor. They are not justthe psychological cripples. Nor arc theylocated only in small, isolated pockets.They arc everywhere in the country. Ev-ery city, every region has them. In a fewplaces there is scarcely anyone else.At least 36 million Americans, one inevery five, arc poor. They arc the men,women and children vho don't comeclose to living under minimal standardsof food, shelter and medical care. Theyare not basically different from theirfellow Americans. But they have had thebad luck to be born in a poor region, orto be trained for a dying or automating in-dustry. They may have dark skins. Theymay be sick. They may have lost theirjobs after they were 40 years old—tooold to find new jobs but not old enoughto die. Or, like the American Indians andthe small farmers, they may merely havebeen born into an obsolete culture.The poor in 1963 are largely invisible.They arc concealed by modern apparel—all Americans tend to dress casually and,with modern dyes, most old clothes re-main unfaded. They arc also hidden bythe new shape of the metropolis, wherethe most wretched people are unseen inthe central cores of cities while theircomfortable compatriots are gone to thesuburbs. Finally, the poor are obscuredby The National Average. Since WorldWar II it has been taken for granted thatthe United States, with the world's high-est standard of living, has eliminatedpoverty. For 80 percent of the populationthis is true, and this 80 percent assumes itis the same for all.The American poor are incomparablyluckier than the poor of Asia and Africaand the Middle East, who die by the hun-dreds on the streets. But poverty is meas-ured according to the standards of a man'sown community.If most of America is well fed, the manwho can’t find three meals a day for hisfamily is poor. If most of America hasmodern weatherproof housing, the manwhose home is leaky and has no pipedwater is poor. If most of America hasenough medical care to stay alive untilage 70, the man who can't afford to livebeyond age 55 is poor. Such a man ispoor statistically. But he is also poor ina far more damaging way: He is a failurein his neighbor's eye and in his own.Most of the poor are helpless victims ofa social upheaval they could neither fore-see nor control. Farms are becoming... 14015-AL-631221-06

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