Census Report: More Americans Living in Poverty

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Published August 27, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans living in poverty increased by 1.3 million last year. Hear NPR's Tony Cox and Heather Boushey, an economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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