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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/1/census-poverty-south.html

Monday. The report, based on data from the 2000 Census and figures collected from the American Community Survey from 2008-2012, revealed that in 2012 about 77 million people, roughly 25.7 percent of the U.S. population, lived in a poverty area where more than one-fifth of residents earn an income below the poverty line of approximately $23,600 a year for a family of four. That is a significant increase from the 2000 level of 45 million people or 18 percent of the population. Paul Jargowsky, a professor of urban research and education at Rutgers University and one of the study analysts,...