{"id":20356,"date":"2019-10-18T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testbanksouthern-ada.aceone.io\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:15:35","slug":"hablar-de-la-pobreza-reexaminar-las-necesidades-basicas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/talking-about-poverty-re-examining-basic-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hablar de pobreza: Reexaminar las necesidades b\u00e1sicas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Kathryn Hazelett<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Editor\u2019s note: This is one in a series of\u00a0blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we\u2019ve explored the ins and outs of how we define\nand measure basic needs, let\u2019s take a look at how we\u2019ve calculated family\nbudgets. Below is a comparison a family budget in the 1960s with one today. I\u2019m\nusing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/2001\/05\/art3full.pdf\">Bureau of\nLabor Statistics data<\/a> for the 1960s calculation and a calculator from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/resources\/budget\/\">Economic Policy Institute<\/a> for today.<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For simplification, we\u2019ll look at the percentages; what\npercentage of income went\/goes to items like food, clothing, and housing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1960s, the breakdown for an urban family with one\nwage-earner looked like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1960s-pie-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1960s-pie-chart.jpg 837w, https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1960s-pie-chart-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1960s-pie-chart-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just as we\u2019ve discussed over the last several weeks, it\u2019s\nimportant to look at these amounts with a critical eye. In this case, these\nnumbers represent a \u201cCity Worker\u2019s Family Budget for a Moderate Living\nStandard\u201d and were published in 1966. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, the breakdown looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-pie-chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-pie-chart.jpg 841w, https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-pie-chart-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019-pie-chart-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These numbers are for a family of four in the Little Rock, Ark.,\nmetro area in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m sure that differences jump out to you. For me, the\ninclusion of child care (and its large costs) as well as the big changes in\nhealth care, housing and, of course, <em>food<\/em>\nstand out. Times and categories change. How we budget changes. How we measure\nand think about poverty and family needs should change, too. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> I encourage you to follow the EPI link and see what you\nlearn about the real costs of meeting our basic needs where you live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kathryn Hazelett Editor\u2019s note: This is one in a series of\u00a0blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. Now that we\u2019ve explored the ins and outs of how we define and measure basic needs, let\u2019s take a look at how we\u2019ve calculated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20359,"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions\/20359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.banksouthern.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}