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DELEGATE BEACHLEY: My second question,
Mr. Chairman.
You mentioned some statistics about unemploy-
ment throughout the United States, but I think we ought
to bring this down to the State of Maryland. How many
impoverished families, families with incomes below three
thousand dollars a year are there in the State of Maryland?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mitchell.
DELEGATE MITCHELL: There are one hundred a,nd
sixteen thousand three hundred fifty-one families, fifteen
per cent of the population of the State of Maryland which
today have incomes which are less than three thousand
dollars per year. Of that number, twenty-eight thousand
have incomes of less than a thousand. That is families,
not individuals. Thirty-seven thousand have incomes of
less than two thousand dollars a year, and forty-nine
thousand have incomes of less than three thousand,
between two thousand and three thousand a year.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Beachley.
DELEGATE BEACHLEY: Mr. President, I do have
one more auestion. That three thousand dollars, do you