More grist for campaigns: Poverty in America rises
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Last year, more Americans lived in poverty, more children were poor, and more people lacked health insurance than in 2002. That message, reported by the US Census Bureau yesterday, was expected, but the increases
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Democratic presidential candidate  John Edwards is touring eight U.S. states this week to  highlight poverty in America, and put the issue at the heart of  his campaign.
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Washington -- About 1.3 million Americans slid into poverty in 2003, the US Census Bureau said yesterday in a report that fuelled Democratic criticism of President George W. Bush.
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The poverty rate fell in 2006, but the percentage of Americans without health insurance hit a new high, the Census Bureau said.
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Linking the federal minimum wage to inflation and strengthening collective bargaining rights would be two steps toward the eventual elimination of poverty in America, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Monday.
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The Kerry campaign on Friday criticized the administration for putting off, possibly until after the election, issuing an annual report that could show an increase in the number of households that either don't have access to enough food or have experienced hunger.
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While John Edwards was winding up a tour of America's most impoverished areas, another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), came to Anacostia yesterday to stake his own claim as a poverty warrior -- and to present a vision for fixing struggling inner cities that directly...
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American economist Jeffrey Sachs  has a novel way to tackle African poverty: Shower more aid on  the world's poorest continent.
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U.S. aid should focus more on reducing poverty in the poorest countries instead of being driven primarily by security concerns, a coalition of U.S.-based charities said on Thursday.
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Rental housing in the Green Bay area and elsewhere in Wisconsin is more affordable than the national average, but an advocacy group says many poor Americans are still paying more than they can afford because salaries havenât kept up with rent and
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The anti-poverty campaign of U2 frontman Bono is promoting a $30 million effort to pressure Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to make the oft-forgotten issue a priority.
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The poverty rate dipped in 2006, the first significant decline in the Bush presidency. Median household income bumped up slightly.
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Protesters intensify their campaign against Sunday's election results.
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Some statistics on American life as Election Day nears, compared with four years earlier.
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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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Blog: Small donors are having a significant impact on the amount of money that the Republican and Democratic candidates for president are raising.
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WASHINGTON -- The number of Americans in poverty and those without health insurance each rose by more than 1 million in 2003, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.