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Despite some signs that the economy is getting better, poverty is still a persistent threat for the majority of Americans, a new study by the AP has found. Survey data showed that 4 in 5 adults have struggled with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives. It also found [more...]  John Iceland is Professor of Sociology and Demography at Penn State University, and former Branch Chief, Poverty and Health Statistics Branch, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, U. S. Census Bureau. He is also the author of Poverty in America: A Handbook (UC Press, February 2006), and most recently, Where We Live Now: Immigration and [more...] |
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