Census: Poverty up in 2003
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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.
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WASHINGTON -- A new report indicates that one in every five US jobs pays less than a poverty-level wage for a family of four. As a result, nearly 39 million Americans, including 20 million children, are members
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Some 1.3 million Americans slid into  poverty in 2003 despite the economic recovery, and children and  blacks were worse off than most, the government said on  Thursday in a report certain to fuel Democratic criticism of  President Bush.
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Four years into an economic recovery, the number of people living in poverty has finally stopped climbing.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 26, 2004 - The number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year, while the ranks of the uninsured swelled by 1.4 million, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.
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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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The U.S. poverty rate declined 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 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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FOR MANY Americans, 2003 was a year of economic stagnation and increasing insecurity, according to Census Bureau figures released yesterday.
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One out of every eight Americans now lives below the poverty line, as the percentage of the US population living in poverty rose for the third consecutive year in 2003, the US Census Bureau reported Thursday.
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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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More than 900,000 people in Scotland are living in poverty, including 240,000 children, a study warns.
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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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New data released by the US Census Bureau yesterday painted a picture of two Washingtons, one in which the number of people without health insurance rose to historic levels and the other in which middle-class workers enjoyed a bump in income.
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Medicaid spending grew about  one-third from 2000 to 2003 as job losses and other economic  woes made more people eligible for the government-run health  insurance program for the poor, a new study said on Wednesday.
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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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Asia's surging economic growth is helping to cut the region's poverty levels, but some areas are lagging behind, a report says.