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The following statement comes from the US Census Bureau.

http://www.census.gov/library/publications/2014/demo/p60-249.html


In 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty. For the third consecutive year, the number of people in poverty at the national level was not statistically different from the previous year’s estimate”


The US Census seems to differ significantly from your BLS data. The USCB data is a simple hard number. The BLS data is confused by subsets of subsets. Of course the USCB data does not distinguish how many are employed or family size or % at minimum wage, but it is difficult to reconcile the huge but simply stated 45.3 million poverty figure of the USCB with the more complexly stated BLS data.


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