poverty rates

NETWORK is committed to work on federal legislation designed to alleviate poverty and its effects.  Each fall, when the U.S. Census Bureau releases its Poverty Report, based on statistics from the previous year, we are reminded that disparities between those with the greatest wealth in this nation and all others continues to grow. 

It is expected that when official 2009 and 2010 poverty rates come out, they will be higher than the 2008 rate (13.2%).