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Eve Galanter, WWN Chair: Poverty measurements askew
April 26, 2010
WWN Chair Eve Galanter has an opinion piece featured in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel focusing on the US Census Bureau’s creation of a new supplemental poverty measure and the Wisconsin Women’s Network’s flagship project, the Wisconsin Elder Economic Security Initiative.
Galanter writes, “Elders in Wisconsin are having a tough time making ends meet, with one in five living on Social Security alone. The average annual Social Security payment for Wisconsin’s elders is $15,034. This payment barely surpasses the original federal poverty line and is not enough for these elders to be economically secure. According to the Elder Index, the average amount a single Wisconsin elder renter needs is $19,242 a year. In the city of Milwaukee, it’s $20,264.”
