Poverty Rates Swelled In Almost All U.S. States, Cities In 2010

Thursday, October 20, 2011


The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression the year before, U.S. Census data released on Thursday showed.
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