[PRCo] Re: PSSST - WANNA BUY LOUSY PICTURES? - WP buses

[Fred Schneider]

I'm not totally surprised.  You need to go down into the former coal patches ...
off the main US highways like 119 and 40 ... and you'll see the poverty.    Next
question ... poor on a per capita bases or smallest amount of total money in
circulation.  I presume the former because per capita income is a commonly
available number.

You want to make it sound worse, Fred?   Fayette is one of the counties with the
oldest population in the state.  An incredible number of retired people.  And
what happens with per capita income with older people?  It often goes up.  The
kids now have their own jobs (either there or in Houston or Atlanta or Charlotte)
and the parents have one less body to divide into their total income.  In order
to have very low per capita income with older people you need a lot of companies
that defaulted on pensions or a sea of people in their fifties that are on
welfare with nothing to do.

One of these days I'll pull up the 2000 census data and play with it.  By now we
should have welfare data, income data, population by age, employment.  Per capita
income is available every year using projected numbers.

fws

Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 1/29/03 9:41:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> j_swindler at hotmail.com writes:
>
> << West Penn withdrew its
>  >petition for bus replacement there before it received permission to abandon
>  >rail service...the company learned its lesson from the five bus routes in
>  >the south.  >>
>
> I  read somewhere recently that Fayette County in PA is one of the three
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