Poverty

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• Poverty Election
• Macro News Chapter 2
• Review the latest update on the poverty condition
  in the U.S.
• Examine the recent poverty trend in the U.S.
• Discuss how the social and economic issues of
  poverty may or may not have affected the last
  presidential election

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• Macro News August 27, 2004

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• Macro News August 27, 2004

Dr. Daniel Weinberg, chief of the U.S. Census
Bureau's Housing and Household Economic
Statistics Division, announces 2003 median
income, poverty rate and health insurance
coverage at a news conference at the Census
Bureau 8/26/04.
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• Macro News August 27, 2004