Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

Census Bureau report out

The Census Bureau has released its Report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008. Lots of web comments about the inflation adjusted median income falling below the 1998 median. I see another startling fact. On page 4 the report notes that "[a]pproximately 31.0 percent of the population had at least one spell of poverty lasting 2 or more months during the 4 year period from 2004 to 2007."