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Poverty rate
Census reports drop in poverty, but for a lot of Americans, things don't feel better
by
Kimberly Adams
and Andy Uhler
Sep 12, 2017
We’ve got new numbers today from the U.S. Census Bureau on poverty in America. The official poverty rate went down by 0.8 percent. That means last year, about 40.6 million Americans were living in poverty (12.7 percent). Median household incomes went up by about 3.2 percent. If you’re in the middle of the economic spectrum, […]