POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES.
Mr Hunter, a well-known American sociologist, recently declared that oneeighth of the total population of the United States is poverty-stricken, being insufficiently fed, inadequately clothed, and insanitarily housed. They are the victims, Mr Hunter Asserts, of deteriorating economical conditions. They are prone to tuberculosis, through malnutrition. School children are hungry because their parents are underpaid. Already present conditions compare badly with the time of Charles Dickens' tour, whenjbeggars were unknown. Mr Hunter believes that poverty in America will soon be more acute than in Europe, by reason.of economic feudalism, which is rivalling the worst features of the ancient Baronial system.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8036, 7 January 1905, Page 6
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