CHART: How Government Programs Keep Millions Of Americans Out Of Poverty

CHART: How Government Programs Keep Millions Of Americans Out Of Poverty: The U.S. Census Bureau’s annual poverty estimates, released today, found that the poverty rate remained stable in 2011 after three consecutive years of rapid increases during and after the Great Recession. But 46.2 million Americans still live in poverty, defined as less than $23,000 in annual income for a family of four. The data also [...]/p