Nearly 36 Million Americans Living in Poverty
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor swelled to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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Many of the poorest people in the United States are still struggling to recover from the effects of a recession that ended six years ago, making them very vulnerable as the country stands on the brink of a new downturn.
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Utah&#39;s working poor are finding it increasingly difficult to pay the rent. The Deseret Morning News this morning reports the findings of a new study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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About &#36;92 million of the &#36;350 million that the Bush administration pledged for tsunami relief assistance has been spent so far, a U.S. government official said Friday.
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The U.S. poverty rate fell for the first time this decade but more people are living without health insurance and the bulk of the nation's poor are children, government data released on Tuesday showed.
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The US Census Bureau announced Thursday that the number of citizens living in poverty and without health insurance rose in 2003. The government agency says the poverty rate rose from 12.
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As Americans flee the cities for the suburbs, many are failing to leave poverty behind.
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Fraud in the &#36;300-billion-a-year Medicaid program is widespread and the federal government is not doing enough to combat it, congressional investigators said in a report released Wednesday.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
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A QUARTER of a billion people in some of the worldâs poorest and most populous countries in East Asia have been lifted out of extreme poverty by rapid economic growth over
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Despite a war on poverty that began  more than four decades ago, the ranks of the hungry and  homeless in the United States are increasing even as government  funding declines, a study released on Tuesday found.
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The number of Americans living without insurance jumped 1.4 million last year, the government said in a report on Thursday. With poverty rising in 2003, are you better off financially than you were a year ago?
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A long-term study of the health and development of children in the United States will include about 100,000 children and their families in 96 counties in 36 states.
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The number of Americans living in poverty jumped by 1.3 million last year as household incomes held steady, the Census Bureau said Wednesday.
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A US government survey says the number of Americans living in poverty or without health insurance grew last year. The Census Bureau on Thursday said the number of poor people have climbed 1.3 million to 35.
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The US poverty rate rose, incomes stagnated, and more Americans went without health insurance last year, even though economic growth surged, according to Census Bureau data released yesterday.
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor rose 4 percent to 35.9  million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the  government said on Thursday in a report that fueled Democratic  criticism of President Bush.