Ranks of Poverty-Stricken, Uninsured Rise
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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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Drug-resistant staph infections have spread to the urban poor, rising almost seven-fold in recent years in some Chicago neighborhoods, a new study finds.
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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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A nationwide study has found that the uninsured and those covered by Medicaid are more likely than those with private insurance to receive a diagnosis of cancer in the late stages of the disease.
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The number of people in the United States without health insurance rose to 45 million last year, the government reported Thursday, and new statistics show that the increase outpaced that for people getting coverage.
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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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Title 1 School designations, free lunch programs, food stamps, and Medicaid are among the local indicators of the rising poverty in the mountains of southwestern Virginia
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A stagnant economy and rising health care costs helped push the percentage of people in the USA without health insurance last year to 15.
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The nation's poverty rate declined last year for the first time this decade, but the number of Americans without health insurance rose to a record 47 million, according to annual census figures released yesterday.
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Candidates in both parties are promising to work to cover more of the Americans without health insurance.
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The cost of employer-provided health insurance rose 6.1 percent this year, the smallest jump since 1999 but still well above the increase in wages and consumer prices, according to an annual survey released yesterday by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Housing, economic slumps may portend rise in ranks of region's homeless, survey shows.
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WASHINGTON - Democrats took aim at President Bush'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.    The president's surrogates came to his defense, noting that the numbers failed to reflect more recent economic gains, such as the addition of 1.5 million jobs over the past 12 months, or the full effect of the Bush-backed tax cuts...
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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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CHICAGO: Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than US workersâ salaries this year, according to a survey released last Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.
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Democrats seized on new government data released Thursday showing that the number of people in the United States living in poverty and the number of uninsured increased for the
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Many people who rely on government health insurance for the poor have to search harder to find a doctor and increasingly are going to large practices, a study shows.