-- Forty-four million people in the United States, or one in seven residents, lived in poverty in 2009, an increase of 4 million from the year before, the Census Bureau reported on Thursday.
The poverty rate climbed to 14.3 percent — the highest level since 1994 — from 13.2 percent in 2008. The rise was steepest for children, with one in five residents under 18 living below the official poverty line, the bureau said...
For a single adult in 2009, the poverty line was $10,830 in pretax cash income; for a family of four, $22,050. --
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Comment: A littel socialism here, a little socialism there, and soon you have full-blown poverty.
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