The U.S. Census Bureau has just announced that the poverty rate for 2008 was 13.2%. This means the number of people in poverty has increased by about 2.5 million, to 39.8 million. To give you some perspective, 2.5 million is more than the number of people who live in Detroit and San Francisco combined.
To highlight the importance of this data and raise awareness of poverty in the United States, we are coordinating a campaign on Twitter.com to get as many people and organizations as possible to “tweet” about the new national poverty numbers.
Looking for additional resources on poverty and data? Visit povertymeasure.org
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