U.S. poverty rate stabilizes—for some, By Neil Shah, October 11, 2013, Wall Street Journal: “America’s poverty rate has stabilized after rising during and right after the last recession—yet a greater share of the poor are poorer than they have been in years. Forty-four percent of America’s poor are considered to be in “deep poverty”—defined as an income 50% or more below the government’s official poverty line. That percentage of Americans in deep poverty is up from 42% before the recession and near the highest level since data became available in 1975, according to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty