Examining US Poverty in an Election Year

Poverty rates in the United States have been consistent over the past few years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Photo: ©RIA Novosti, Iliya Pitalev.
Poverty rates in the United States have been consistent over the past few years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Photo: ©RIA Novosti, Iliya Pitalev.

The number of Americans under the poverty line has remained consistent over the past few years, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report, but the bad news is that the number is already record-setting.

Host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky touched on the issue of poverty in America with Marieka Klawitter, professor at University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs, and Curtis Skinner, a labor economist at the National Center for Children in Poverty.

 

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Carmen is a multimedia journalist based in Washington, DC whose work has appeared in a variety of outlets including National Geographic, NBC News, the BBC, Asia! Magazine, The China Post, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel.