Poverty Remains Flat in the United States
January 6, 2011 at 7:58 PM Leave a comment
The Recovery Act Kept 4.5 Million People Out of Poverty in 2009, Helping Keep Poverty Flat:
Our analysis of data that the Census Bureau released this week shows that the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was one of the single most effective pieces of antipoverty legislation in decades. In 2009, the Recovery Act’s temporary expansion of the safety net kept 4.5 million people out of poverty.
I volunteer at a food bank that scrambles to stock its shelves to help the desperately poor so this as very good news.
That said, it’s astonishing to me that over the course of the last three or four years, we here in the U.S. are becoming accustomed to headlines about poverty.
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