Census: 1.3 Million More in Poverty in 2003
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Description: The US Census Bureau releases new data that shows the number of Americans living in poverty rose last year by 1.3 million people.
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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  government said on Thursday in a report that fueled Democratic  criticism of President Bush.
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Democrats took aim at President Bush&#39;s economic record after release of a Census Bureau report showing the ranks of the uninsured and the impoverished grew in 2003 for the third consecutive year while incomes stayed level.
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The study confirms recent estimates, which put the number at roughly one in 160 children â higher than the one-in-200 estimate made in the 1980s.
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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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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - Nearly one-fifth of children in the European Union  are living in poverty, a new report has concluded.
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Business & money: More than 1% of households were hit with some stage of repossession proceedings last year
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The nation has three-quarters of a million homeless people, filling emergency shelters through the year and spilling into special seasonal shelters in the coldest months, the government said Wednesday.
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More than 500 million people can  escape abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to  bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich  countries double development aid over the next 10 years to $195  billion, a new U.N.-sponsored report said on Monday.
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Sitting amid mounds of rotting garbage in a rubbish dump in Baghdad, 13-year-old Huda Hamdan is the human face of a new U.N. report that says a third of war- torn Iraq's 26 million people live in poverty.
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By next year, 3.3 billion people will live in towns and cities, according to a U.N. report released today.
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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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U.S. spending on health care rose  7.7 percent to 1.7 trillion in 2003, outpacing overall economic  growth by nearly 3 percentage points, according to an annual  government report released on Tuesday.
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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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FOR MANY Americans, 2003 was a year of economic stagnation and increasing insecurity, according to Census Bureau figures released yesterday.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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The Commerce Dept. today estimated that the nation's gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3.1 percent.