1.3 million more Americans in poverty
Report: 1.3 million more Americans in poverty
MSNBC
08/26/04
The nation's poverty rate rose for a third straight year in 2003 and the ranks of the uninsured swelled, the Census Bureau said Thursday in a report sure to fuel election-season debate over President Bush's handling of the economy. Although the economy completed a second full year of expansion in 2003 after a recession that ended in November 2001, median household income just barely kept up with inflation and was statistically unchanged at about $43,300, the bureau said." [editor's note: "Poverty" is defined by the US Department of Health and Human Services as an annual income of less than $9,310 in the continental US -- nearly twice the average per capita income worldwide. Relativism prevails - TLK]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5829707/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
MSNBC
08/26/04
The nation's poverty rate rose for a third straight year in 2003 and the ranks of the uninsured swelled, the Census Bureau said Thursday in a report sure to fuel election-season debate over President Bush's handling of the economy. Although the economy completed a second full year of expansion in 2003 after a recession that ended in November 2001, median household income just barely kept up with inflation and was statistically unchanged at about $43,300, the bureau said." [editor's note: "Poverty" is defined by the US Department of Health and Human Services as an annual income of less than $9,310 in the continental US -- nearly twice the average per capita income worldwide. Relativism prevails - TLK]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5829707/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 27. Aug, 16:01
