What does it mean to be poor in America?

We learned Tuesday that a record number of Americans are living in poverty, and that the poverty rate–15.1 percent–rose for the fourth straight year. But those raw numbers leave out some key details that can help us understand the fuller implications of how poverty affects individual Americans. For instance, how is poverty defined? What specific

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What does it mean to be poor in America?

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