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US poverty on track to reach 46-year high; suburbs, underemployed workers, children hit hard

• Washington Post
The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.

Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.

 

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