Poor still suffering from last recession
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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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Many of the world's poorest countries lamented at a U.N. ministerial meeting Monday that some of the least developed nations are experiencing increases in extreme poverty.
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Sharp drop in economic confidence hitting poorest people hardest, Guardian/ICM research reveals
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More than one fifth of elderly people feel they are living in poverty and 28% say their lives have got worse, a survey says.
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.
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The gap between rich and poor in Britain is the widest for 40 years, with a growing number of people living below the poverty line, a report said Tuesday.
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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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The money is disappearing, yet the struggle to stand out continues.
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Business & money: Wage growth in the public sector slows to lowest level in nine years.
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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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Millions of Britons face retirement poverty unless they work longer or save more to plug a Â£57bn shortfall, a government-inspired report is due to say.
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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 $50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing ...
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Though the number of welfare recipients continues to decline, poverty rates -- particularly for single mothers and children -- have surged in recent years.
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A fifth year of powerful economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific has driven the number of people living in poverty in the region to its lowest level ever, but the World Bank warned Tuesday that oil prices could dampen the boom next year.
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Privatisation and trade liberalisation policies foisted on developing countries in return for financial help are often bad for the poor, according to a confidential government paper.
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The gap in life expectancies between rich and poor persists, with professionals enjoying longer lives than the lower-skilled.
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The chances of a recession are low even though UK economic growth will slow sharply, a report says.