Poverty in the United States

Poverty in the United States, from CRS

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/09/poverty_crs.html
September 19th, 2012 by Steven Aftergood

“In 2011, 46.2 million people were counted as poor in the United States, the same number as in 2010 and the largest number of persons counted as poor in the measure’s 53-year recorded history,” according to a timely new report from the Congressional Research Service.  See Poverty in the United States: 2011, September 13, 2012.