Despite more jobs, US poverty rate rises
"Despite a year in which the US economy added jobs, the percentage of Americans living in poverty grew from 12.5 to 12.7 percent last year - the fourth straight year it's risen. ... Some analysts say the numbers are particularly troubling not so much for the change they show, but the lack of it - the persistance of relatively high poverty rates over time. The real-life picture for those under the poverty level - or even many above it - can be grim, they say."(Christian Science Monitor, 8/31/2005). Full story.
posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 9/11/2005 09:45:00 PM
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