Poverty Rate Continues to Climb (before Katrina, symptomatic)

Bernardo de La Paz

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Fri Sep-02-05 07:11 PM
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Poverty Rate Continues to Climb (before Katrina, symptomatic)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083001727.html

Despite robust economic growth last year, 1.1 million more Americans slipped into poverty in 2004, while household incomes stagnated and earnings fell, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. The number of Americans without health insurance rose by 800,000, to 45.8 million.

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