By Carol SpruillThe Census Bureau recently announced the good news that the official poverty rate in 2007 was "not statistically different" from 2006.
But upon digging deeper into the Census Bureau’s full 71-page report the “not statistically different” poverty rate was an overall national increase from 12.3 percent to 12.5 percent. This meant that the number of additional people living on incomes below the poverty line in this country had increased in one year by over 800,000.
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