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And the link between crime and the poverty rate has weakened substantially over the past two or three decades.

The Great Recession, however, accelerated the rise of the suburban poor, as it did the overall poverty rate.

Pennsylvania offers free coverage to families who earn up to twice the official poverty rate.

Over the last two decades, thanks largely to government policy, the poverty rate in Brazil has halved.

New Hampshire had the lowest poverty rate, at 8. 3 percent, making it the only state with a poverty rate below 10 percent.

Partly because of that failure, and despite sharp falls in the poverty rate, appalling numbers of Indians are still desperately poor.

Take Hidalgo High School, located on the Texas-Mexico border, where students are Hispanic and the poverty rate hovers close to 40 percent.

My next stop was Zambia, which faces lower levels of violence, but a higher poverty rate.

Free markets helped Chile triple its economy and cut its poverty rate by more than two-thirds over the past two decades.

Per unit of growth, Brazil reduced its proportional poverty rate five times more than China or India did.

Smith and other leaders of Fight Poverty DC say they don't blame Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) for the city's rising poverty rate.

Safety nets needed as social spending declines, poverty rate rises in rural areas.

U. S. poverty rate in the growth record of innovation in a recession.

Its population is shrinking and its poverty rate hovers around 30%.

And if white families had stayed like they were in 1960, the white child poverty rate would have been 11. 4% rather than 15. 4%.

She thinks the poverty rate will peak above 14% and stay as high as 13% for a decade or so.

The poverty rate dropped in rural areas and rose in urban and suburban ones.

The city's poverty rate is slightly higher than it was in 1978, when the first casino opened.

poverty [5pCvEti] The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent-twice the national average.

Turkey has been effective in its poverty reduction efforts, with the poverty rate of 27% in 2002 dropping to just under 18% in 2006.

However, given the increase in world population, the poverty rate has still fallen from 50% to 25% over the past 25 years.

Arizona now has the second highest poverty rate in the nation, after Mississippi.

Newfoundland, helped by royalties from oil and mining, has cut its poverty rate in half (to 6. 5%).

The country's poverty rate increased by 15 percent, and the number of poor rose to 31 percent in urban areas and 45 percent in rural areas.

Take the goal of halving the poverty rate from its 1990 level by 2015.

The official poverty rate has gone up by precisely 6 million people.

Sweden's tax-benefit system cuts its poverty rate by 80%.

The absence of food stamps separately would increase the poverty rate to 17. 2 percent.

STEVE EMBER: The official poverty rate for all Americans last year was a little more than fourteen percent.

At 15. 1 percent, the poverty rate is at its highest since 1993.

Among the hardest hit were children: The child poverty rate was 19% last year, up from 18%.

For whites, the poverty rate in 2010 was 9. 9 percent, a half percentage point increase from the previous year.

Indeed, East Asia's extreme poverty rate dropped to 9 percent in 2004.

The black child poverty rate climbed to 39 percent, while the Hispanic child poverty rate reached 35 percent.

Among regions, the South had the highest poverty rate at 16. 9% and the highest percentage without health insurance, 19. 1%.

The poverty rate, at 13. 2%, was the highest since 1997.

It cut its poverty rate to about 19% from 33% in 1990, but Mr Nag said this improvement was under threat because of inflation.

Without the earned income tax credit, the poverty rate under the revised formula would jump from 15. 7 percent to 17. 7 percent.

and the poverty rate was halved in the ten years to 2009, helped by an eightfold increase in the oil price.

In the 20 years to 2006, the poverty rate fell from 45% of the population to just 13. 7%.

And the official poverty rate fell from 12. 6% to 12. 3%.

But the poverty rate fell much more slowly in India, to 41. 6% in 2005 from 51. 3% in 1990.

For example, in Kenya and Tanzania, such households have a poverty rate over 20% higher than the national average.

Under the official poverty rate, about 8. 9 percent lived in poverty, mostly because they benefit from Social Security cash payments.

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U. S. poverty rate reaches 15. 1 percent