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As Trump Boasts About Economy, New Data Show Poverty Rate Virtually Unchanged
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-boasts-economy-data-show-222359780.html
...The nation’s official poverty rate dipped only slightly in 2017, from 12.7 percent of Americans living in poverty in 2016 to 12.3 percent in 2017, a drop of just 0.4 percentage point. The number of people in poverty was “not statistically different” from 2016, according to the government, with 39.7 million Americans still living below the poverty line.
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
HuffPost
As Trump Boasts About Economy, New Data Show Poverty Rate Virtually Unchanged
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-boasts-economy-data-show-222359780.html
...The nation’s official poverty rate dipped only slightly in 2017, from 12.7 percent of Americans living in poverty in 2016 to 12.3 percent in 2017, a drop of just 0.4 percentage point. The number of people in poverty was “not statistically different” from 2016, according to the government, with 39.7 million Americans still living below the poverty line.
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
HuffPost