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Percent of total federal housing benefits, by income quintile, 2000

Bottom fifth: 17.8%
Second fifth: 2.7%
Third fifth: 3.1%
Fourth fifth: 13.8%
Top fifth: 62.5%

* Most of the money which goes to the upper tiers of the income spectrum represent mortgage interest deductions to homeowners.

Source: 2000 Advocate's Guide to Housing and Community Development Policy, National Low Income Housing Coalition, at http://www.nlihc.org/advocates/figure3.gif.


Housing Poverty Index for Portland, Oregon.

Source: Community Development Network, January 2000.


Value of Minimum Wage ($1997)

1968: $6.81
1978: $6.30
1988: $4.55
1997: $5.15

Source: Economic Policy Institute, 1999


Northwest Job Gap Study

Source: Northwest Policy Center at the University of Washington, January, 1999.
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