{"id":21874,"date":"2010-09-17T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page-more_are_poor_2009_census_data_shows_1_in_7_living_\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:30:43","slug":"local_paper_front_page-more_are_poor_2009_census_data_shows_1_in_7_living_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21874","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper Front Page&#8211;More are poor: 2009 Census data shows 1 in 7 living in poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few people need a census report to tell them that more people are living in poverty during this recession, but there it is: nearly one of every seven people in the United States was living in poverty last year.<\/p>\n<p>It was the highest rate of poverty since 1994, and the largest number of people living in poverty, 43.6 million, since the government began keeping track 51 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau also reported stagnant incomes and rising numbers of people without health insurance, both of which contribute to poverty and a national trend of a declining middle-class standard of living that began in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are very tough times,&#8221; said East Cooper Community Outreach Executive Director Jack Little. &#8220;People are hurting who have never hurt before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/17\/more-are-poor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few people need a census report to tell them that more people are living in poverty during this recession, but there it is: nearly one of every seven people in the United States was living in poverty last year. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21874\">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":[39,40,149,133,600,597,593,88,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-poverty","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874","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=21874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}