Tag: poverty rate
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U.S. Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2009
Carpe Diem. The increase in poverty is bad but all things in perspective.
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U.S. poverty rate leveling off
From chron.com: U.S. poverty rate leveling off Four years into an economic recovery, the number of people living in poverty has finally stopped climbing. Household incomes edged up slightly in 2005, but 37 million people were still living below the poverty line, about the same as the year before, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. It…