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New Census Data on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance

Posted on August 26, 2008

Here's a round up or reactions to the Poverty, Income, and health Insurance Report released today by the Census Bureau:Statement by Robert Greenstein on the New New Census Bureau Data on Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance, CBPP: ...[T]he new Census data are disquieting. Though 2007 was the sixth (and likely the final) year of an economic expansion, poverty was significantly higher, the median income of non-elderly households significantly lower, and the number and percentage of Americans who are uninsured substantially greater than in 2001 even though the economy was in recession that y...

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