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- Census data show one in eight Americans in poverty
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  In the world's biggest economy one in eight Americans and almost one in four blacks lived in poverty last year, the U.S. Census Bureau said on Tuesday, releasing a figure virtually unchanged from 2004. The survey also showed 15.9 percent of the population, or 46.6 million, had no health insurance, up from 15.6 percent in 2004 and the fifth increase in a row. It was the first year since President George W. Bush took office in 2001 that the poverty rate did not increase. As in past years, the figures showed poverty especially concentrated among blacks and Hispanics.
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- Of U.S. Children Under 5, Nearly Half Are Minorities
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, predicted that the United States will have "a multicultural population that will probably be more tolerant, accommodating to other races and more able to succeed in a global economy."
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- Come October, Baby Will Make 300 Million or So Americans
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  If the experts are right, some time this month, perhaps somewhere in the suburban South or West, a couple, most likely white Anglo-Saxon Protestants or Hispanic, will conceive a baby who, when born in October, will become the 300 millionth American.
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Census data show one in eight Americans in poverty

Of U.S. Children Under 5, Nearly Half Are Minorities

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