Reply #18: Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent

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AP Wire


By JENNIFER C. KERR
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 30, 2005; 11:10 AM

Overall, there were 37 million people living in poverty, up 1.1 million people from 2003.
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The last decline in overall poverty was in 2000, when 31.1 million people lived under the threshold _ 11.3 percent of the population.

The number of people without health insurance grew from 45 million to 45.8 million. At the same time, the number of people with health insurance coverage grew by 2 million last year.

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