Nearly 36 Million Americans
Living in Poverty
Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:28 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 1.3
million Americans slid into
poverty in 2003 despite the
economic recovery, and children
and blacks were worse off than
most, the government said on
Thursday in a report certain to
fuel Democratic criticism of
President Bush.
The percentage of the U.S.
population living in poverty
rose to 12.5 percent from 12.1
percent in 2002, the Census
Bureau said in its annual
poverty report, seen by some as
the most important score card on
the nation's economy and Bush's
first term in office. The ranks
of the poor rose to 35.9
million, a boost of 1.3 million.
Health care coverage also
dropped last year and incomes
were essentially stagnant, the
Census Bureau said in its annual
poverty report, seen by some as
the most important score card on
the nation's economy and Bush's
first term in office.
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Recall the USA uses a rediculously high poverty cut-off. The actual rate
is MUCH higher.
dr
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