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More Americans Living In Poverty; Government Does Less To Help |
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by Coalition on Human Needs
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27 Sep 2003
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Illinois is one of the hardest-hit states. Poverty jumped from 10.4% to 11.5 last year, while media in Illinois income dropped $2696 to $44,808. Illinois was one of only five states that saw both poverty increasing and income dropping last year. |
The number of Americans who live in poverty has risen for the second year in a row to 34.6 million, an increase of nearly 3 million people since 2000, according to a report released by the Census Bureau today. The proportion of Americans living in poverty increased to 12.1 percent in 2002, up from 11.7 percent the year before.
Click here for a CHN press statement on the new poverty data: http://www.chn.org/pdf/chnpovertypressrelease.pdf
The Census Bureau's official annual reports on income and poverty in the United States focus on aspects of nationwide poverty, but also includes state poverty rates.
Click here to get the new data: http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/IncomePoverty.html
A number of groups in the states have told the Coalition on Human needs that they plan to do analysis and media outreach of the state level poverty data. See the list of these groups below.
As we receive materials from the state groups and related media coverage, we will be posting them on our web site: http://www.chn.org/issues/maintopic.asp?iss=10
State Group
The following group has told the Coalition on Human Needs that they will be tracking the release of the new national and state poverty data and will do some form of media outreach or analysis for Illinois (and Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio.)
Midwest Partners
Downers Grove, Illinois
Suzanne M. Armato
Phone: 630-810-9885
Fax: 630-810-1395
E-mail: sarmato (at) midwestpartners.org
Plans: Midwest Partners works with the six states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio. If we can get data for these six states and then do a regional perspective that would be great!
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