One In Seven Americans Is Living In Poverty

One In Seven Americans Is Living In Poverty
One in seven Americans is living in poverty, the highest number in the half-century that the government has kept such statistics, the Census Bureau announced Thursday. Last year was the third consecutive year that the poverty rate climbed, in part because of the recession, rising from 13.2 percent in to 14.3 percent, or 43.6 million people, last year.