You don't think there's that kind of poverty within the EU itself?
Alison
> On 3/4/06, Dr Hillary Shaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The Wall Street Journal 2/3/06, reports (pie chart,
> p.10) that the wealthiest 10% of US citizens have 69.5% of
> the country's wealth; the poorest 50% have 2.5% of the total wealth.
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> Translated into average individual shares, this becomes
> shocking - for every $69.50 owned by an individual in the
> wealthiest 10%, an individual in the bottom 50% owns just 50
> cents. Guess that explains why I saw a guy in New York, in
> late November, temperature ca. 0 Centigrade, with just one
> shoe. You don't get many shoes, even in N Y, for 50 cents.
> Should the EU consider setting up some kind of poverty relief
> fund for these sort of cities?
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> Hillary Shaw, Southampton
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> We are the electric sheep the corporations dream about
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> Sallie A Marston
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> Regional Development
> University of Arizona
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