From the NY Times:
- 46.2 million people now live in poverty in the United States.
- Median household incomes adjusted for inflation declined by 2.3 percent in 2010 from the previous year to $49,400.
- The group of 25-to-34-year-olds experienced a 25 percent rise in living at home in the period between 2007, when the recession began, and 2011. Of that group, nearly half were living below the poverty line, when their parents’ incomes were excluded.
- Poverty also swallowed more children, with about 22 percent of all children living below the poverty line, up from 20.7 percent in 2009.
Are you one of those numbers?
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