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POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES

Poverty in the United States today has many faces. There’s the pleading face of a middle-aged man on a city street holding up a sign that says “Hungry, Need Help.� There’s the anxious face of a young child in a schoolroom somewhere, whose only real meal today will be a free school lunch. There’s the sad face of a single mother who doesn’t have enough money to buy clothes for her children. And there’s the frustrated face of a young man working at a minimum-wage job who can't afford to pay his rent.
The federal government measures poverty by the numbers. In 2007, the federal “poverty line� was set at $16,530 for a family of three and $21,203 for a family of four (USCB). If a family makes less than those amounts of money in a year, it is officially classified as poor. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 12.3 percent of all Americans were living in poverty in 2006. That equates to more than 36 million people, more than the entire......

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