US Census: One third of US population poor or near poor

From The World Socialist Web Site:   http://wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/poor-n29.shtml By Debra Watson 29 November 2011 One hundred million US residents—one third of the US population—live in households with perilously low incomes, according to a recent report from the US Census Bureau. The shocking figures were derived from the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), an alternate measure of poverty [...]