The Census Department Just Released Some Shameful New Data About Poverty In America

  x You have successfully emailed the post. The Census Bureau data is out on 2010, and it confirmed the recession's deep impact on Americans.

From the report: Household income dropped under $50,000 since 2009 to $49,44546.2 million people were under poverty in 2010, up from 43.6 million in 2009That's the largest number of people under poverty since 1959The nation's official poverty rate in 2010 jumped to 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009

The numbers go much further, telling a difficult story for many black and Hispanic Americans, who were some of the hardest impacted in 2010.

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