Ranks of poor, uninsured rise for third year
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 03:41AM
TheSpook
The ranks of the poor and those without health insurance grew in 2003
for the third straight year. Those trends, spelled out last week by the
U.S. Census Bureau signaled a clear and troubling shift in the way
poverty has spread across the country. The number of poor Americans
leapt by 1.3 million to 35.9 million. That's an increase from
12.1 percent to 12.5 percent. Most of the increase 733,000 -- was among
children. California alone has accounted for all of the net national
increase of 890,000 in the number of children in poverty since the late
1970's. [more 
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