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This fall, the Census Bureau released new poverty data showing a stunning reversal in economic security over the course of last year. The findings included a record jump in the Supplemental Poverty Measure just one year after hitting a record low. Child poverty doubled. Some 12.4 percent of Americans were poor last year, according to that measure. But More
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This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Shailly Gupta Barnes.