Tuesday, September 13, 2011

U.S. poverty rate reaches 15.1 percent

The nation’s poverty rate spiked to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, providing vivid new evidence about the country’s inability to escape the lingering effects of the recession.

About 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty last year, marking an increase of 2.6 million over 2009 and the fourth consecutive annual increase in poverty.
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1 comment:

The Anti-Gnostic said...

If you import poor people, you are going to get more poor people.

If you pay people to be poor and sick, you are going to get more people who are poor and sick.

Iron laws.