U.S. : Number of poor hit record 46 mln in 2010: report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A record 46 million Americans were living in poverty in 2010, pushing the U.S. poverty rate to its highest level since 1993, according to a government report on Tuesday on the grim effects of stubbornly high unemployment.


Janette, 10, (L-R) Alicia, 6, and Nicole, 9 walk back to the shelter
where they sleep after studying at South Los Angeles Learning
Center in Los Angeles, California March 16, 2011.

Underscoring the economic challenges that face President Barack Obama and Congress, the U.S. Census Bureau said the poverty rate rose for a third consecutive year to hit 15.1 percent in 2010. The number in poverty was the largest since the government first began publishing estimates in 1959.


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 The report surfaces at a time when the economic straits of ordinary Americans are at the forefront of the 2012 election campaign.

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