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From: reza@ihuxb.UUCP (Reza Taheri)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Government waste
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Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 13:55:18 EST
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Steve Wolf (woof@hpfcla.UUCP) in article <20300001@hpfcla.UUCP> writes:

	Professor Ronald Nash...points out that the United States
	spends $250 billion a year to fight poverty.  This is enough
	to make an annual payment of $34,000 per year to each family
	below the poverty line.

   I have seen data like this before.  Does the $250 billion refer
strictly to such items as general welfare, food stamps, etc., or
does it include such things as the grants to poverty ridden
neighborhoods, college grants to poor students, etc?  Furthermore,
does it include social programs that benefit everybody?

H. Reza Taheri
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