Record number of Americans living in poverty

46.2 million Americans lived in poverty last year–the highest total since record keeping began more than half a century ago, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Thanks to an unemployment rate that averaged 9.6 percent, and anemic economic growth, the share of Americans who lived below the official poverty line over 2010 rose to 15.1 percent,

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Record number of Americans living in poverty

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