Record Poverty Level: 'Long Slog Ahead' for U.S.?

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Channel: PBS NewsHour · 2010 · News & Politics

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The Census Bureau released new economic numbers showing that one in seven Americans lived in poverty last year, and more than 50 million are not insured. Ray Suarez discusses the record poverty numbers and the recession's effects on the poor with economists Isabel Sawhill and Harry Holzer.

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