“In 2009, according to the Census Bureau, about 43.6 million people, or 14.3 percent of the Nations population, lived at or below the official poverty level.1 Although the poor were primarily children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year, 10.4 million individuals were among the working poor, 1.5 million more than in 2008. The working poor are persons who spent at least 27 weeks in the labor force (that is, working or looking for work) but whose incomes still fell below the official poverty level. In 2009, the working-poor ratethe ratio of the working poor to all individuals in the labor force for at least 27 weeksincreased to 7.0 percent, up by 1.0 percentage point from the previous years figure.”
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