 Census Shows Rise in Nation's Poorest
by Elaine Korry
All Things Considered, August 29, 2006 · Despite comparative stability in the national poverty level, one number that rose in recently released Census Bureau data was the amount of people living in extreme poverty.
Federal guidelines list people in extreme poverty if their incomes fall at or below 50 percent of the poverty level. An additional 300,000 people slipped into what the Census Bureau calls "severe poverty." NPR : Census Shows Rise in Nation's Poorest Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. ~Richard Armour
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville |