Poverty in U.S. Grows

Some 1.3 million Americans slid into poverty in 2003 as the ranks of the poor rose 4 percent to 35.9 million, with children and blacks worse off than most, the U.S. government said on August 26, 2004. Despite the Bush-purported "economic recovery," the percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty rose for the third straight year to 12.5 percent--the highest since 1998--from 12.1 percent in 2002, the Census Bureau said in its annual poverty report. The widely cited scorecard on the nation's economy showed one-third of those in poverty were children.

This is the third year in a row that the number of people living in poverty rose--cooincidence that is exactly the number of years Shrub has been in office? You can certainly draw your own conclusions on that.

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