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Census Bureau Shares A More Nuanced View of Poverty

It doesn't take a genius to know that poverty means something different from one state to the next. The U.S. Census Bureau has released a new, supplemental measure of poverty that considers geographically sensitive factors like housing costs—and describes a wider swath of America as poor.