Sep 18 2013
The Associated Press/Washington Post: Census Data Expected To Show Modest Decline In US Poverty Rate After 5 Years Of No Improvement
Analysts predict the poverty rate will decline by up to half a percentage point from its current level of 15 percent, or 46.2 million people. It could be the first decline since 2006. The figures also are expected to show little if any improvement in the number of uninsured (9/17).
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This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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