The census bureau reports the number of americans in poverty stood at 15% in 2012. That means about 46 and a half million people, or more than 1 in 6 were in poverty last year.
It was the sixth straight year that the poverty rate had failed to improve hurt by persistantly high levels of unemployment after the housing bust.
Now the number of people, lacking health insurance, dipped from 15.7% down to 15.4, but the number of the uninsured was unchanged at 48 million.
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