The New York Timesreports today that according to the Census Bureau, US income and poverty rates improved in 2006--though the only bits of good news I found in the piece were that poverty among the elderly is relatively low and that poverty rates for Hispanic Americans fell to 20.6 percent (which doesn't seem acceptable anyway). Poverty rates for white, black and Asian Americans were statistically unchanged.
Other highlights:
median household income rose slightly, but only for white people. Rising incomes were a "reflection of more family members taking jobs to make ends meet," not of people getting paid better wages
more adults lack health insurance than in 2005
700,000 more children lack health insurance than in 2005
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