Thursday, September 16, 2010

Census: 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty

1965 was the year that Lyndon B. Johnson began the War on Poverty. 

The number of people living in poverty has climbed to 14.3 percent of Americans, with the ranks of working-age poor reaching the highest level since at least 1965.

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