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In September, the government said that a record 46600000 Americans lived in poverty. But a new report released Monday by the Census Bureau uses a more sophisticated method for measuring poverty rates found that the real figure is even higher: $ 49.1 million, or 16 percent of all Americans.
It's not just the raw numbers that are different in the new measure - it is also the break which is poor and who is not. The methods of the new census, the proportion of poor, who are over 65 jumps 7.6 percent to 12.7 percent. And the proportion of those under 18 from 36.1 percent to 27.7 percent. In other words, children are not as bad as we thought, the report suggests, while the elderly do much worse.
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