U.S. Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent

[im10ashus]

http://nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Census-Poverty.html?hp&ex=1125460800&en=d74b58184dd4e9a2&ei=5094&partner=homepage

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:11 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) --The nation's poverty rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year, the fourth consecutive annual increase, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

The percentage of people without health insurance did not change.

Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.

Asians were the only ethnic group to show a decline in poverty -- from 11.8 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent last year. The poverty rate among the elderly declined as well, from 10.2 percent in 2003 to 9.8 percent last year.

The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold -- 11.3 percent of the population.

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[madeline_con]

1. About to rise in wake of Katrina.

:(

[im10ashus]

2. I was thinking the same thing.

How can people look at these figures and say * is doing a "good work?"

[madeline_con]

3. He can't even spell "good work".

I'm flabbergasted by the number of people who support this _________.

Then again, I hope he stole the election(s), in a weird way. I'd hate to think he got into office fair and square. Just think what that says about the average American! :wow:

[durablend]

4. In more ways than one...

Even for people nowhere near the destruction :(

[im10ashus]

5. We are already seeing that all over the US.

Gas prices are already up and the winter heating bills will certainly be no less expensive after this is all over.

[H2O Man]

6. "Poverty

is the worst form of violence." -- Gandhi

[im10ashus]

7. It's what happens when they don't create jobs.

Or outsource the jobs we have/had.

"Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty." Voltaire