- Number of uninsured U.S. adults hits record high, By Steven Reinberg, November 10, 2010, USA Today: “Nearly 50 million Americans have gone without health insurance for at least part of the past year – up from 46 million people in 2008, federal health officials reported Tuesday. Those people included not only those Americans living in poverty, but an increasing number of middle-income people, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ‘The bottom line is that uninsurance of young and middle-class adults increased by 4 million people from 2008 to the first quarter of 2010,’ CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden said during a news conference Tuesday. What’s more, the number of people without insurance for a year or more increased from 27.5 million in 2008 to 30.4 million in the first quarter of 2010, Frieden said. ‘That’s an increase of 3 million of chronically uninsured adults…'”
- Report: 59 million Americans lack health care, By Joshua Norman, November 10, 2010, CBS News: “More than 59 million Americans had no health insurance for at least part of 2010, an increase of 4 million from the previous year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported Tuesday. While the worsening economic conditions did have a direct impact on the number of Americans with coverage, the situation also meant that a far greater number of Americans are forgoing needed medical care because of costs…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty