Greyhound bus trip provides snapshot of U.S. poor
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Every morning at 7.30 a Greyhound bus loads up with passengers in New Orleans, climbs a ramp to Interstate 10 and slips into the rush hour traffic to start its journey to Atlanta.
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Destitute and determined to sneak into the United States, Alvaro Garcia arrived at a Tijuana shelter after a 60-hour bus trip from southern Mexico to rest and inquire about the most porous spots along the border.
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Social Security, the entitlement that keeps millions of elderly Americans out of poverty with monthly checks gleaned from payroll taxes, ranks as one of Flint Journal readers&#39; top issues in this presidential election.
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Ever wonder where America's yellow school buses go to die? Some don't &#151; they find a second life on Central Africa's rutted, traffic-choked roads.
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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 -- The number of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance is growing, according to new Census Bureau figures.
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Hurricane Ivan has driven the misery index off the scale in Florida' most impoverished county, where nearly one in five residents were below the poverty line last year.
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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 U.S.  government said on Thursday in a report sure to fuel Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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Amid energy crisis, S. American region is growing dependent on their continent's poorest country.
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A tour bus taking people home from a charity event in Chicago ran off a highway in southern Illinois and rolled onto its side when the driver turned around to talk to a passenger, authorities said. Dozens were injured, none critically.
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Poor-paying positions in health care and social services have driven recent growth in employment in the city.
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WASHINGTON -- The number of poor Americans grew by 1.3 million last year, according to a sobering and politically sensitive Census Bureau report issued Thursday.
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Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans.
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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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By Elwin Green, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Mar. 8--Pittsburghers soon will be able to ride to Chicago for less than  the cost of a Zone 1 trip on a Port Authority bus.
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Trucks and city buses shuttled in and out of poor, coastal neighborhoods in this tourist city Monday night, carrying residents to higher ground as the secondary effects
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The bus trip from Chicago to a Mississippi gambling town was a twice-a-year tradition for the group of friends and relatives, as much about visiting, laughing and reminiscing as it was about trying to strike it rich.