Poverty stuck at 15 percent—record 46.5 million

Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 16:00 in Mathematics & Economics

The nation's poverty rate remained stuck at 15 percent last year despite America's slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack Obama's recovery plans.

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