{"id":1602,"date":"2007-08-29T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/us_poverty_rate_dips_03_percentage_points\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T01:56:00","slug":"us_poverty_rate_dips_03_percentage_points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1602","title":{"rendered":"U.S. poverty rate dips 0.3 percentage points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s poverty rate dropped last year, the first significant decline since President Bush took office.<\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent \u201d\u201d were living in poverty last year. That\u2019s down from 12.6 percent in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The median household income was $48,200, a slight increase from the previous year. But the number of people without health insurance also increased, to 47 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20476601\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s poverty rate dropped last year, the first significant decline since President Bush took office. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 36.5 million Americans, or 12.3 percent \u201d\u201d were living in poverty last year. That\u2019s down from 12.6 percent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1602\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}