The most recent newsletter of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), their Director of Health Policy Research, Elise Gould, responded to the newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau:
"After nearly a decade of neglect that ended with the most severe recession since the Great Depression, it is no surprise that poverty hit its highest rate since 1994."
On September 16, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 43.6 million people, or one in seven Americans were now living in poverty. And that the rate for children was even scarier: one in five children in this country are living in poverty.
Read the rest of EPI's newsletter at www.epi.org/pages/epinews
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