In Event at Food Pantry, Advocates Explain Ties between Lack of Health Care and Poverty; Call for Health Care Reform and “New War on Poverty”
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the nation’s official poverty rate in 2008 was 13.2 percent, up from 12.5 percent in 2007. There were 39.8 million people in poverty in 2008, up from 37.3 million in 2007. The number of people without health insurance coverage rose from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. Meanwhile, the real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008.
