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There’s more new census data out and, as Jonathan Cohn writes, “one in six Americans are extremely poor. … If you want to find a year when the poverty rate was significantly higher, you have to go all the way back to the early 1960s, before enactment of the Great Society.”
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There’s more new census data out and, as Jonathan Cohn writes, “one in six Americans are extremely poor. … If you want to find a year when the poverty rate was significantly higher, you have to go all the way back to the early 1960s, before enactment of the Great Society.”

Read more, here.

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September 26, 2011
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