POVERTY
Continued from Paoe 1
Also, them are programs like Medicaid and Medi
care (hat have helped the senior poverty rate.”
Eaton said the increasing number of Impover
ished children may be the result of decreased fed
eral funding for government child relief agencies
during the 1980s
In addition, requests for help have over
whelmed both federally funded agencies and pri
vate. non-profit support organizations, such as
the Relief Nursery in Eugene.
Relief Nursery executive director jeon Phelps
said the compounded nature of most family prob
lems makes her organization's )ob very difficult.
Poverty ts usually intertwined with a number of
other issues, such as child abuse, unemployment,
mental health and drug and alcohol abuse.
"What wo see are peoplo that have many prob
lems that have gone unaddressed," Phelps said.
"If poopln have one problem, they generally have
many. Wo've nover had the resources necessary
Jo Impact the problem the way we need to."
Phelps said demands on social service agencies
have grown In recent years to the point where to
day. the Relief Nursery has more than 200 people
on its waiting list.
"We've been getting about a dozen calls a week
at the Nursery from appropriate referrals." Phelps
said.
Poverty usually increases the workload for the
Relief Nursery, which Is primarily n child abuse
prevention program.
“It's very difficult to parent when you'ro living
in poverty without adequate resources." Phelps
said.
The 1990 census dala shows that in 1989 there
were 10.387 children under the poverty threshold
In Lane County — 26 porconl of all people living
in poverty.
Nationally, the average poverty rato for a
household of four was $12,674 in 1989.
Food expenses, household size, number of chil
dren and annual inc ome are used to determine if
a household Is below the poverty line.
ASSAULT
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said.
Knight said that a fourth
white male reported being boat
on by a group of black mon oar
lior in the nvoning. Police be
lieve the two attacks may have
boon by the same poople.
Gordon said ho and throe
whito friends wore walking
homo from b campus bar about
1:30 a.m. when two black mon
walking behind them started
yelling racially charged com
ments.
•'Something to the effort of,
‘Yeah, 200 to 300 years of op
pression against us blacks and
now it's our turn," Gordon
said. Then, '‘You'll see how it
fools."
"It's kind of funny," ho said,
"because I'm Asian-Amorican
myself.” But ho said they
avoided a confrontation by
talking to the mon making the
r
com m on ts.
"We basically said wo don't
wont any problem with you,"
Gordon said."So wo snook
hands. They wont their own
way."
A few minutes later, he said,
ho and Blair looked' down a
street and saw about 12 black
men hitting another male
“They wore punching, kick
ing and jumping on his head."
he said.
Gordon said he and Blair
went down to sm; if they might
bo ablo to calm things down,
but before they could say any
thing, they won; attacked
Gordon said he didn't see the
two men from the first incident
in tho crowd. But. ho added, he
was preoccupied with defend
ing himself.
Blair and the unidentified
man wore knocked uncon
scious. Gordon said. The at
tackers fled when bystanders
gathered around, he said.
Two onlookers took Blair,
Cordon and the third man to
Sacred Heart Hospital.
"What really gets mo is that
wo'ro not prejudiced,“ Gordon
said "They were just out to
beat up anybody that was
white. I can't Imagine the ha
tred that must he; fedt."
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