Friday, September 17, 2010

Record number of Americans living in poverty
Census Bureau says 43.6 million people in 2009, up near 4 million in a year

The number of people living in poverty in America rose by nearly 4 million to 43.6 million in 2009 — the largest figure in the 51 years for which poverty estimates are available — the Census Bureau said Thursday.

The bureau said in a statement that the official poverty rate was 14.3 percent, or 1 in 7 of Americans, the highest proportion of the population since 1994...

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