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2010
Op-ed by Sharon Parks in the Detroit News: More Help for the Poor Needed Now (10/7/10) Op-ed by Steven Manela in The Register Guard: Growing Poverty Rate has High Costs for Entire Community (10/3/10) Op-ed by Elinor Goldberg in the Bangor Daily News: Poverty Menacing Children (10/1/10) Op-ed by Kathy White and Bridget Kaminetsky in the Colorado Springs Independent: Deal With Poverty Now (9/30/10) Journal and Courier: Community Can Aid Those in Poverty (9/30/10) Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: Help Needed Now for Growing Number of Children in Poverty (9/29/10)
2009
Journal and Courier: National, Local Child Poverty Rates Converge (9/29/10) Statement by Deborah Weinstein: Across the Nation, the Recession Causes Steep Increase in Poverty; Nutrition Aid and Health Coverage Helps Children Withstand Dangers (9/28/10) Op-ed by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and John Podesta in The Hill: Child Poverty has ramifications for nation's future growth, prosperity (9/28/10) Op-ed by Bishop Gene Robinson on AOL News: Who Will Stand Up for the Poor (9/28/10) Deborah Weinstein Quoted in the Washington Post: Poverty Numbers Get Muted Reaction on Hill (9/18/10) CHN Press Release: 3.7 Million More Poor - A State of Emergency. Coalition on Human Needs Calls for Continuation of Successful Aid to Support Economic Recovery (9/16/10) EPI: A Lost Decade: Poverty and Income Trends Paint a Bleak Picture for Working Families (9/16/10) IWPR: Gender Wage Gap Stagnant Overall, Women Not Doing Better (9/16/10) CDF: Millions More Children Living in Poverty; Now is the Time to Act and Invest in Our Children's Future (9/16/10) Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein on the Huffington Post: State of Emergency: We Need to Address Rising Poverty Now (9/16/10) Op-ed by Elinor Goldberg in the Bangor Daily News: Poverty Menacing Children (10/1/10) Op-ed by Kathy White and Bridget Kaminetsky in the Colorado Springs Independent: Deal With Poverty Now (9/30/10) Missoulian, MT: Remember Those Living in Poverty by Terry Kendrick (10/27/09) Omaha World-Herald, NE: Midland Voices: Health Reform can be Remedy by Beatty Brasch (10/14/09) San Antonio Express-News, TX: Strengthen the poor for jobs and for life by Jilani Chaudry, Judy Lackritz and Alejandro Siller-Gonzales (10/14/09) JTA: Religious Communities: Fight Poverty with Green Jobs by Eric Fingerhut (10/13/09) JCOnline.com, IN: Poverty Will Only Grow, So Help Now by Patti O'Callaghan (10/11/09) Times Union, NY: Fight Poverty, for Kids' Sake by Kristin Brown Lilley and Denise Harlow (10/5/09) Pressconnects.com, NY: New Poverty Data by Carole Coppens (10/2/09) Half in Ten, CAP Action Release Poverty Data by Congressional District (10/2/09) CHN: Grim Census Data on Poverty Points to Growing Need Even Before Unemployment Skyrocketed this Year: Uninsured numbers reflect the importance of public health insurance programs (9/10/09) CBPP: Statement of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on Census' 2008 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Data (9/10/09) WOW: New Poverty Suggest Long Road to Economic Security Without Education, Training (9/10/09) NWLC: Women's Private Health Coverage, Incomes Decline While Poverty Increases, Census Data Show (9/10/09) Families USA: Census Bureau Finds the Number of Uninsured Grew to 46.3 Million in 2008 (9/10/09) CCF: Number of Uninsured Children Drops to Lowest Level Since 1987, Outlook Bleaker for Parents and Other Adults (9/10/09)
2008
Charleston Gazette, WV: Good News: Census Data Show Income Gains in W.V. by Rick Wilson (9/7/08) Traverse City Record-Eagle, MI: Forum: Growing Poverty Requires Response by Sharon Parks (9/5/08) Akron Beacon- Journal, OH: End the War, Invest at Home by Greg Coleridge (9/4/08) The Press of Atlantic City, NJ: Poverty is Real - and Getting Worse by Albert B. Kelly (9/1/08) The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA: A Credit to Help Low-Income familiesby Joanne Carter (9/1/08) The Gazette, IA: Helping Those in Need Can Boost Economy by Diane John-Smith (8/31/08) Missoulian.com, MT: Help Working Poor, Help the Economy (8/29/08) NJ Jewish News: We Must Act Now! (8/28/08) St. Paul Pioneer Press, MN: While the Economy Expanded, many Minnesotans lost ground (8/27/08) Hartford Courant, CT: Rate of People Without Health Insurance Drops in State (8/27/08) CHN Statement on New Census Bureau Data on Poverty (8/26/08) TPMCafe: Trickle Down . . . R.I.P. by Jared Bernstein (8/26/08) Families USA: Number of Uninsured Decreased; But Census Report Shows Growing Health Coverage Problems (8/26/08) First Focus: Census Data Shows Thousands of New Children Living in Poverty (8/26/08) Center for Children and Families Statement on New Census Data on Uninsured Children (8/26/08) WOW: New Poverty Data Offers Only a Glimpse of the Struggle Women and Elders Face to Make Ends Meet (8/26/08) IWPR: Gender Wage Gap Narrows as Incomes Rose in 2007 (8/26/08) Catholic Charities USA Calls New Poverty Rate Unacceptable (8/26/08) NWLC: No Progress in Reducing Women's Poverty, Limited Gains for Women in 2007, Census Data Show (8/26/08) AFSC: War Funds Should be Spent to Reduce Poverty, Quaker Group Says (8/26/08)
2007
ECAP Press Release on Bush's Sick Twisted Priorities (8/29/07) WA: SHARE Press Release (8/29/07) WA: The Columbian: County's Poverty Rate Down in 2006 (8/29/07) CHN Press Release on 2006 Census Data (8/28/07) CBPP Statement on New Census Bureau Data (8/28/07) Families USA Press Release on Number of Uninsured (8/28/07) Carsey Institute Press Release on Child Poverty (8/28/07) AFSC News Release on Poverty Data (8/28/07) Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law Press Release on Poverty Statistics (8/28/07) Center for Children & Families Press Release on Uninsured Children (8/28/07) MN: Minnesota Budget Project Press Release (8/28/07) MS: Mississippi Public Policy Center Press Release (8/28/07) OR: Oregon Center for Public Policy News Release (8/28/07)
2006
NYTimes Editorial: Downward Mobility (8/30/06) NYTimes: Census Reports Slight Increase in '05 Incomes (8/30/06) Post: U.S. Poverty Rate Remains Unchanged (8/30/06) Post: D.C. Suburbs Top List of Richest Counties: Nationwide Data on Health Coverage Bleak (8/30/06) USA Today Editorial: Rising Economic Tide Fails to Lift Poor, Middle Class (8/29/06) CHN: 2005 Census Data Press Release (8/29/06) WashPost Editorial: The Other America (9/20/05) WashPost Op-Ed: The Lagging Poor (9/6/05) NYTimes Op-Ed: The Larger Shame (9/6/05) AP: Number of Citizens in Poverty Increases (8/31/05) NYTimes: U.S. Poverty Rate Was Up Last Year (8/31/05) WP: Poverty Rate Rises to 12.7 Percent (8/31/05) UPI: Census: Uninsured Population Continues to Grow (8/30/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) NY Times Op-Ed: The Mobility Myth (6/6/05) NYTimes: Richest are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind (6/5/05) NYTimes: Class in America: Shadowy Lines that Still Divide (5/15/05) NYTimes: One More "Moral Value": Fighting Poverty (1/30/05) Daytona Beach News Journal Op-Ed: This is the Year for the U.S. to Lead the War on Poverty (1/1/05) LATimes: The Poor Have More Things Today, Including Wild Income Swings (12/12/04) NYTimes Op-Ed: Shhh, Don't Say Poverty (11/22/04) NYTimes: New York's Working Poor Are Losing Ground (11/12/04) WP: Poverty Up as Welfare Enrollment Declines (9/26/04) HNR: Number of Poor Americans Increases for Third Consecutive Year (9/17/04) Newsweek Editorial: The War We Haven't Won (9/12/04) Queens Times Ledger: Borough Residents Slip Into Poverty (9/2/04) WP Editorial: Poverty and Health (8/31/04) CHN: Poverty Rate Climbs (8/26/04) WP: Ranks of Poor and Uninsured Rises (8/26/04) CBPP: Press Statement on New Poverty Numbers (8/26/04) Chicago Tribune: The Working Poor (4/25/04) NY Times Op-Ed: Total Poverty Awareness (2/21/04)
Regional Coverage of Latest Poverty, Uninsurance Data
OH: The Columbus Dispatch: Child Poverty Rate Increases (9/12/06) UT: The Herald Journal: Valley Ranks Hight for Kids in Poverty (9/10/06) AZ: The Arizona Republic: State Gets 'F' for Tuition Aid it Gives Poor (9/10/06) PA: DailyLocal.com: Poverty Rate Nearly Doubles (9/9/06) CT: JournalInquirer.com: Fewer People on State Health Care Despite Rising Poverty (9/8/06) MI: The Detroit Free Press: A Growing Worry: The Poor Children (8/30/06) MI: The Detroit Free Press: A Michigan Census Snapshot: More Feel Pain of Tight Economy (8/30/06) OR: The Oregonian: Editorial- Uninsured Stats Hold Steady in State (8/30/06) NY: The New York Daily News: Editorial- America's Wealth on Poverty (8/30/06) MN: Minnesota Star Tribune: Editorial- An Economy that's Treading Water (8/30/06) IA: Radio Iowa: Iowa Policy Project Says State's Economy Hasn't Bounced Back (8/30/06) GA: the Atlanta Journal: Ranks of Poor and Uninsured Swell; Georgia's Increases Among Fastest in Nation (8/30/06) CA: The San Francisco Chronicle: U.S. Household Income Rises a Bit, but Poverty Rate Maintains its Grip (8/30/06) UT: Salt Lake Tribune: Editorial- Household Income Inches Up, But Poverty Rates Change Little (8/30/06) PA: The Morning Call: While Region's Wealth Grows, Allentown's Poverty Rate Soars (8/30/06) PA: The Morning Call: Census Report Yields Mixed Results for the Middle Class (8/30/06) NJ: The Star Ledger: The Flight of the White Middle Class Creates a Split between Have-a-Lots and Have-nots (8/30/06) IN: IndyStar.com: More Hoosiers Sink into Poverty (8/30/06) IN: The Journal & Courier: Census Shows 11.9% of County's Families in Poverty (8/30/06) NH: The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire's Press Release on Rural Child Poverty Census Data (8/29/06) OR: Oregon Center for Public Policy Press Release (8/29/06) MA: Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Releases Poverty and Income Indicators in Massachusetts (8/29/06)
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2005
UT: Salt Lake Tribune: More Can't Make Ends Meet - Low Wages, Benefits Have Utah Poverty on the Rise (9/6/05) PA: The Lewistown Sentinel: Families Struggle Now More Than a Generation Ago (9/5/05) CA: San Francisco Chronicle: U.S. Census Finds More are Poor (8/31/05) CA: Sacramento Business Journal: California Incomes Stagnant, According to Census Data (8/31/05) FL: South Florida Business Journal: Census Highlights Miami Poverty , Lower Wages (8/31/05) MD: Baltimore Sun: Baltimore Among Poorest Areas of Comparable Size (8/31/05) MA: Boston Globe Editorial: Declining Health (8/31/05) MI: Detroit Free Press: Detroit Tops Nation in Poverty Census (8/31/05) MN: Minneapolis Star Tribune: Census Data Show Minnesota Ranks High in Low Poverty Rate (8/31/05) MO: Columbia Daily Tribune/AP: Number of Citizens in Poverty Increases (8/31/05) OH: Cleveland Plain Dealer: Cleveland No Longer Poorest Big City (8/31/05) OK: The Oklahoman: Poverty Declines In State But Uninsured Rate Grows (8/31/05) ME: Magic City Morning Start: Poverty Report Shows Need for Stronger Federal Support, Says Maine Children's Alliance (8/30/05) OR: Oregon Public Broadcasting: Child Poverty Still A Problem In Oregon (8/30/05) PA: Philadelphia Inquirer: Number Without Health Insurance Grew in '04 (8/31/05) PA: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Number of Uninsured, Impovrished Americans Creeping Up (8/31/05) PA: Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed: The Dishonesty of the Poverty Data (8/31/05) WA: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Pay Down, Poverty Up in King County (8/31/05) WI: WRN Wisconsin Radio Network: Wisconsin Ranks First in Poverty Growth (8/31/05) WI: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 1 in 7 Lack Health Insurance, Census Survey Finds (8/30/05)
