AMERICA - Poorest of the Poor

Sad, so very sad....

"Census: 1 in 15 Americans Among the Poorest of the Poor" PBS Newshour 11/3/2011

Excerpt

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): It's a stark portrait of America, its haves and especially its have-nots. New census data out today showed one in 15 Americans now lives in extreme poverty, the poorest of the poor, defined as earning less than 50 percent of the official poverty line. In 2010, that meant an income of around $5,500 for an individual and just over $11,000 for a family of four.

There was also a new analysis of poverty in the last decade today from the Brookings Institution, among its findings, a rise in the concentration of poverty, particularly in the Midwest and Sunbelt, and increasingly in the suburbs, and a jump in the population living in extremely poor neighborhoods, where at least 40 percent of individuals live below the poverty line.