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U.S. Severe
poverty rate at highest in three decades
Plight of poorest of poor extends to suburban areas
By TONY PUGH
Mcclatchy-Tribune
02/26/07 "Huston
Chronicle" -- -- WASHINGTON — The percentage of poor Americans
who are living in severe poverty has reached a 32-year high as the gulf between
the nation's "haves" and "have-nots" continues to widen.
A McClatchy Newspapers analysis of the 2005 census figures, the latest
available, found that nearly 16 million Americans are living in deep or severe
poverty. A family of four with two children and an annual income of less than
$9,903 — half the federal poverty line — was considered severely poor in 2005.
So were individuals who made less than $5,080 a year.
The McClatchy analysis found that the number of severely poor Americans grew by
26 percent from 2000 to 2005. That's 56 percent faster than the overall poverty
population grew in the same period.
McClatchy's review also suggested that the rise in severely poor residents isn't
confined to large urban counties but extends to other areas.
The plight of the severely poor is a distressing sidebar to an unusual economic
expansion. Worker productivity has increased dramatically since the brief
recession of 2001, but wages and job growth have lagged behind. At the same
time, the share of national income going to corporate profits has dwarfed the
amount going to wages and salaries.
That helps explain why the median household income for working-age families,
adjusted for inflation, has fallen for five straight years.
These and other factors have helped push 43 percent of the nation's 37 million
poor people into deep poverty — the highest rate since at least 1975.
The growth, which leveled off in 2005, in part reflects how hard it is for
low-skilled workers to earn their way out of poverty in an unstable job market
that favors skilled and educated workers. It also suggests that social programs
aren't as effective as they once were at catching those who fall into economic
despair.
From:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17186.htm
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