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{{p|47}}<font size="2"><div style="text-align:justify;">{{sc|There are eight million people}} living in conditions of poverty in Britain today. Fourteen per cent of the population are living below the national assistance minimum. Two million of these are children. Poverty is on the increase in a society where in 1960 the richest 5% of the population owned 75% of the total personal wealth. This has risen by 4% since 1954. For the first time in the twentieth century a European nation is showing an increase in personal wealth among the top 5%. The latest national income statistics reveal how the number of incomes over £4,000 has increased from 30,000 in 1959 to 100,000 in 1966.<br>

{{tab}}The rich and the poor are inexorably pulling away from each other on the income scale. Thus another popular myth of the fifties hits the dust. The fashionable wisdom of the {{w|''Economist''|The_Economist}} and its supporters is seen to be phony. They predicted that social growth would be brought about by progressive taxation and the effects of the social services.</div>

<div style="text-align:right;">[[Author:Jane McKerron|{{sc|jane m}}c{{sc|kerron}}]] in ''{{w|Peace News|Peace_News}}''{{tab}}</div>

{{p|48}}<div style="text-align:justify;">{{sc|Writing on poverty in the}} {{w|''Christian Science Monitor''|Christian_Science_Monitor}} for October 13, {{w|Joseph C. Harsch|Joseph_C._Harsch}} starts out with the undeniable fact that the {{w|United States|United_States}} is the wealthiest country in the world. Then, after discussing the countries where extreme poverty exists{{dash|{{w|India|India}} and other Asian countries, Africa, and Latin America}}he says:

<blockquote>{{tab}}{{qq|But if my own personal observations as a reporter over some 38 years of roaming around the world are valid then the United States is unique in having serious massive poverty in the midst of affluence. Not in the whole of Western Europe together would it be possible to find 30 million persons who live in the prospect of wasted lives.|l}}<br>

{{tab}}{{qq|It would be fascinating to know whether there is in the {{w|Soviet Union|Soviet_Union}} a segment of the whole which could be said to live in relative poverty. Poverty is, after all, relative. A person could have a wasted life in the United States at 10 times the annual wage of a successful person in India.}}</blockquote>

{{tab}}While Mr. Harsch found {{qq|pockets of underprivileged}} in Britain, {{w|France|France}}, and {{w|Italy|Italy}}, a slum in {{w|Poland|Poland}}, and unpleasant areas in {{w|Denmark|Denmark}} and {{w|Germany|Germany}}, the numbers so afflicted are not numerous, by comparison with those in the United States. He adds this important distinction:

<blockquote>{{tab}}{{qq|Nor does the squalor of even a {{w|Sicilian|Sicily}} slum debase the self-<wbr>respect of its dwellers as does the rotting centre of many an industrial city in the United States. And the dividing line, surely, is drawn not by money income but by whether one is needed, or unwanted.}}</blockquote>

During his eight years in {{w|London|London}} Mr. Harsch was often asked by American visitors to see some slums. He would take them to {{qq|the poorest, shabbiest, most neglected, most race-<wbr>tension-<wbr>ridden parts of London,}} and the reaction was always the same: {{qq|But this isn{{t}} a real slum!}} The person who has seen {{w|Detroit|Detroit}} or {{w|Harlem|Harlem}}, {{w|Chicago|Chicago}}{{s}} skid row, or the poor of {{w|Washington, D.C.|Washington,_D.C.}}, can{{t}} find what he thinks of as {{qq|poverty}} in London, {{w|Paris|Paris}}, {{w|Rome|Rome}}, {{w|Naples|Naples}}{{dash}}{{qq|or {{w|Moscow|Moscow}} (?),}} Mr. Harsch adds. Every European city has its sordid spots, every country its neglected poor{{dash}}

<blockquote>{{tab}}{{qq|But the cold fact is that the United States has tolerated within its midst a degree and quantity of poverty which other advanced societies do not tolerate. On this scale of values the United States is the most backward of modern Western countries.}}</blockquote></div>

<div style="text-align:right;">[[Author:Manas|{{sc|manas}}]] ({{w|Los Angeles|Los Angeles}}) 15/11/1967{{tab}}</div>

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-{{p|47}}<font size="2"><div style="text-align:justify;">{{sc|There are eight million people}} living in condi&shy;tions of poverty in Britain today. Four&shy;teen per cent of the popu&shy;lation are living below the na&shy;tion&shy;al assist&shy;ance minimum. Two million of these are chil&shy;dren. Poverty is on the in&shy;crease in a society where in 1960 the richest 5% of the popu&shy;la&shy;tion owned 75% of the total per&shy;sonal wealth. This has risen by 4% since 1954. For the first time in the twen&shy;tieth century a Euro&shy;pean nation is showing an in&shy;crease in per&shy;sonal wealth among the top 5%. The latest na&shy;tion&shy;al income statis&shy;tics reveal how the number of incomes over &pound;4,000 has in&shy;creased from 30,000 in 1959 to 100,000 in 1966.<br>
+{{p|47}}<font size="2"><div style="text-align:justify;">{{sc|There are eight million people}} living in condi&shy;tions of poverty in Britain today. Four&shy;teen per cent of the popu&shy;lation are living below the na&shy;tion&shy;al assist&shy;ance minimum. Two million of these are chil&shy;dren. Poverty is on the in&shy;crease in a society where in 1960 the richest 5% of the popu&shy;la&shy;tion owned 75% of the total per&shy;sonal wealth. This has risen by 4% since 1954. For the first time in the twen&shy;tieth century a Euro&shy;pean nation is showing an in&shy;crease in per&shy;sonal wealth among the top 5%. The latest na&shy;tion&shy;al income statis&shy;tics reveal how the number of incomes over &pound;2,000 has risen from 300,000 in 1959 to 640,000 in 1960; the number of incomes over &pound;4,000 has in&shy;creased from 30,000 in 1959 to 100,000 in 1966.<br>
-{{tab}}The rich and the poor are inex&shy;orably pulling away from each other on the income scale. Thus another popular myth of the fifties hits the dust. The fashion&shy;able wisdom of the {{w|''Economist''|The_Economist}} and its supporters is seen to be phony. They predic&shy;ted that social growth would be brought about by pro&shy;gres&shy;sive taxa&shy;tion and the effects of the social services.</div>
+{{tab}}The rich and the poor are inex&shy;orably pulling away from each other on the income scale. Thus another popular myth of the fifties hits the dust. The fashion&shy;able wisdom of the {{w|''Economist''|The_Economist}} and its supporters is seen to be phony. They predic&shy;ted that social growth would inevit&shy;ably accom&shy;pany econo&shy;mic growth; that a radical redis&shy;tribu&shy;tion of wealth would be brought about by pro&shy;gres&shy;sive taxa&shy;tion and the effects of the social services.</div>
-<div style="text-align:right;">[[Author:Jane McKerron|{{sc|jane m}}c{{sc|kerron}}]] in ''{{w|Peace News|Peace_News}}''{{tab}}</div>
+<div style="text-align:right;">{{dash}}[[Author:Jane McKerron|{{sc|jane m}}c{{sc|kerron}}]] in ''{{w|Peace News|Peace_News}}''{{tab}}</div>
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 <blockquote>{{tab}}{{qq|Nor does the squalor of even a {{w|Sicilian|Sicily}} slum debase the self-<wbr>respect of its dwellers as does the rotting centre of many an indus&shy;trial city in the United States. And the divi&shy;ding line, surely, is drawn not by money income but by whether one is needed, or un&shy;wanted.}}</blockquote>
-During his eight years in {{w|London|London}} Mr. Harsch was often asked by Ameri&shy;can visi&shy;tors to see some slums. He would take them to {{qq|the poorest, shab&shy;biest, most neglec&shy;ted, most race-<wbr>tension-<wbr>ridden parts of London,}} and the reac&shy;tion was always the same: {{qq|But this isn{{t}} a real slum!}} The person who has seen {{w|Detroit|Detroit}} or {{w|Harlem|Harlem}}, {{w|Chicago|Chicago}}{{s}} skid row, or the poor of {{w|Washington, D.C.|Washington,_D.C.}}, can{{t}} find what he thinks of as {{qq|poverty}} in London, {{w|Paris|Paris}}, {{w|Rome|Rome}}, {{w|Naples|Naples}}{{dash}}{{qq|or {{w|Moscow|Moscow}} (?),}} Mr. Harsch adds. Every European city has its sordid spots, every country its neglec&shy;ted poor{{dash}}
+{{tab}}During his eight years in {{w|London|London}} Mr. Harsch was often asked by Ameri&shy;can visi&shy;tors to see some slums. He would take them to {{qq|the poorest, shab&shy;biest, most neglec&shy;ted, most race-<wbr>tension-<wbr>ridden parts of London,}} and the reac&shy;tion was always the same: {{qq|But this isn{{t}} a real slum!}} The person who has seen {{w|Detroit|Detroit}} or {{w|Harlem|Harlem}}, {{w|Chicago|Chicago}}{{s}} skid row, or the poor of {{w|Washington, D.C.|Washington,_D.C.}}, can{{t}} find what he thinks of as {{qq|poverty}} in London, {{w|Paris|Paris}}, {{w|Rome|Rome}}, {{w|Naples|Naples}}{{dash}}{{qq|or {{w|Moscow|Moscow}} (?),}} Mr. Harsch adds. Every European city has its sordid spots, every country its neglec&shy;ted poor{{dash}}
 <blockquote>{{tab}}{{qq|But the cold fact is that the United States has toler&shy;ated within its midst a degree and quan&shy;tity of poverty which other ad&shy;vanced soci&shy;eties do not toler&shy;ate. On this scale of values the United States is the most back&shy;ward of modern Western coun&shy;tries.}}</blockquote></div>
-<div style="text-align:right;">[[Author:Manas|{{sc|manas}}]] ({{w|Los Angeles|Los Angeles}}) 15/11/1967{{tab}}</div>
+<div style="text-align:right;">{{dash}}[[Author:Manas|{{sc|manas}}]] ({{w|Los Angeles|Los_Angeles}}) 15/11/1967{{tab}}</div>

Anarchy 84/From articles on poverty - Revision history

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