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Census Report: More Americans Living in Poverty

Published August 26, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year. Hear NPR's Tony Cox and Heather Boushey, an economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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