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Poverty numbers are grim in N.J.

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Poverty numbers are grim in N.J.

More New Jersey residents lived in poverty in 2010 than ever before, according to a report released Sunday.

A record 885,0000 people in the state, nearly 300,000 of them children, lived below the poverty line, say authors of an analysis by the Legal Services of New Jersey Poverty Research Institute in Edison, which is based on the most recent numbers available.

Overall, the poverty rate increased from 8.7 percent in 2008 to 9.4 percent in 2009, and finally to 10.3 percent in 2010.  (Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer)

https://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20120520_Poverty_numbers_are_grim_in_N_J_.html

 

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