RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] speaking of apocalyptic horsemen...

["Russell Horn" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> A "war on poverty"?  How old are you?  We've had that too.  
> It was Lyndon Johnson's term: 

Ah, so you  don't need to wage war on poverty in the US? Of course,
central to the War on Poverty waged by Johnston was education. To see
how dramatic the effect of that war was - and the subsequent rise since
the war was abandoned - take a look at
http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/erp/1997/chart5-a.gif

Taken from  "Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern
Nations", co-authored by Timothy Smeeding, a professor of public policy
at Syracuse University, N.Y., and sociologist Koen Vleminckx, of the
University of Leuven in Luxembourg:

The percentage of American children living in poverty is 20.3% 

Other nations:
Sweden, 2.4
Slovak Republic, 3.2
Finland, 3.2
Czech Republic, 3.4
Norway, 3.9
Luxembourg, 4.3
Belgium, 5.1
Austria, 5.3
France, 5.6
Switzerland, 6.4
Netherlands, 7.0
Germany, 8.7
Hungary, 10.1
Ireland, 12.4
Spain, 12.4
Poland, 12.7
Canada, 14.7
United Kingdom, 16.2
Italy, 19.5%

Seems there are two alternative strategies - one to educate people out
of poverty and the other to breed them out. Given the list above points
to countries that have chosen the educate route, I'd dare to suggest it
might be more successful.

Russell.

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