Survey: More Americans in poverty
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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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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 number of Americans filing for unemployment assistance rose by 16,000 last week, the government reported, coming in below economists&#39; estimates.
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Nearly half of all Americans have broadband Internet connections in their homes, largely because of increasing use among minorities and the poor, according to an annual survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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About one-third of the nation's cities have less affordable housing than they had a year ago, according to a survey released Thursday.
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The number of Americans living in poverty increased last year, with nearly 36 million people below the poverty line, 1.3 million more than last year, the US Census Bureau reported yesterday.
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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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Housing, economic slumps may portend rise in ranks of region's homeless, survey shows.
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The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
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One quarter of New York City's 1.9   million children live in poverty -- 50 percent higher than the   United States average -- and many of these children are   overweight, a food supply group said on Tuesday.
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Five million people, or one in 10 adults, spend more than they earn on a monthly basis, a survey suggests.
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Household income crept higher and the poverty rate edged lower last year, the government said Tuesday, while the number of Americans without health insurance rose by 2.2 million to 47 million people.
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Older American teenagers living in poverty have grown fatter at a higher rate than their peers, according to research that seems to underscore the unequal burden of obesity on the nation&#039;s poor.
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Consumer advocate organizations say U.S is trailing in broadband and that inequality is increasing.
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More people went without health insurance in the United States last year, with 45 million, or 15.6 percent of the population, lacking
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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 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?