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The US Census Bureau has announced that the poverty rate jumped to 15.1 percent in
2010, up from 14.3 percent in 2009 and 13.2 percent in 2008. This 18-year high still …

The US Census Bureau has announced that the poverty rate jumped to 14.3 percent in
2009, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. This 15-year high still understates the dire straits of …

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 The proportion of Americans living in poverty rose significantly last
year, increasing for the first time in eight years, the Census Bureau reported today. At the …

In 2008, 39.8 million people were counted as poor in the US¿ an increase of 2.6 million
persons from 2007, and nearly the largest number of persons counted as poor since 1960 …

Abstract In 2012, 46.5 million people were counted as poor in the United States—the
number, statistically unchanged over the past three years, is the largest recorded in the …

Poverty in America: Why Can't We End It? Page 1 Georgetown University Law Center
Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2012 Poverty in America: Why Can't We End It? Peter …

This report presents poverty data from the 2000, 2001, and 2002 Current Population Survey
Annual Demographic Supplements, which provide information for caledar years 1999, 2000 …

Abstract In 2004, 36.6 million people—or 12.6 percent of the US population—were poor. The
“poverty gap”—the amount of additional income required to remove all Americans from …

On August 26, the US Census Bureau released annual poverty figures showing that the
percentage of persons who are poor rose from 12.1 percent in 2002 to 12.5 percent in 2003 …