New Census Data Shows 1.3 Million Children Have Fallen into Poverty Since 2000

Poverty Levels Stabilize; a First in 5 Years

Census Shows Rise in Nation's Poorest

those last 2 sound contradictory, but they're not. overall poverty actually declined by 90k people (which isn't considered a statistically significant drop), but the number living at less than half the poverty level grew by 300k.

so the poor got poorer. (and, of course, the rich got richer. ralph nader would say poor got poorer because rich got richer.)