Seesaw economy: Nearly one in three dipped into poverty, By Allison Linn, February 12, 2014, CNBC: “In America’s new normal, plenty of people will tumble into poverty at some point—but few will be stuck there. Nearly one in three Americans experienced a stint of poverty between 2009 and 2011, a new Census Bureau report finds, but only a fraction of those people were stuck below the poverty line for the entire three-year period. ‘There’s a lot of movement in and out of poverty,’ said Ann Stevens, director of the Center for Poverty Research at the University of California, Davis. That’s partly because of the weak recovery, in which one small victory can push someone above the poverty line, and a setback can shove him or her right back down. But it’s also because of a longer-running trend toward lower-skilled, low-paying jobs…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty