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Summary: Census data show that most people who are working are not poor and most people who are poor are not working.

<p>THE WORKING POOR Sun Apr 25, 9:40 AM ET Add Top Stories - Chicago Tribune to My Yahoo!</p> <p>The food line begins to form during the sunrise chill, more than two hours before the metal gates to the Care United Methodist Outreach pantry open.</p>

Welfare Rolls Drop Again, Says HHS 3/30/2004 10:35:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: ACF Press Office, 202-401-9215 WASHINGTON, March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced the number of families and individuals receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program continues to decline and urged the United States Senate to act quickly to reauthorize the landmark welfare reform program. There were 2,006,597 families receiving TANF cash benefits in September 2003, the most recent month for which data are available. The total represents a 1.2 percent decline from June 2003 and a...

<p>LOS ANGELES — Homelessness and hunger has increased an average of 16 percent annually for the last 15 years, according to a recent study by the U.S. Conference of Mayors (search), while the Census Bureau (search) has found the number of poor increasing slightly last year, to 35 million.</p>

Working Poor Worry About Losing Homes BOISE - Idaho lawmakers are hearing from the working poor, who believe the state is threatening them with losing their homes. The Idaho Community Action Network was at the Statehouse Friday protesting the lien law, that places a lien on anyone who doesn't pay for indigent medical care. The group is trying to get the lien law removed from state law books. "The way the law is set up, " said Sharon Cayler with the Idaho Community Action Network "they put a lien on your property before they ever make a payment." County...

WASHINGTON: It's difficult to pin down the exact numbers, but most nutrition experts agree that on any one day, about 13 million children go hungry across the United States. For older children, the situation improves during the school year when many receive free or reduced-price lunches. But when the schools close, like they did in the Washington region and up and down the East Coast recently because of heavy snow, these children - instead of cheering over the free day off - must put up with emptier stomachs than usual, child advocates say. Even more worrisome to people who help...

It may be too early in this election year to determine which will be the biggest of the Big Lies in this political campaign. However, my feeling is that it may be "the working poor." While there are working people who are poor, most poor people are not working full time, not working very long, or not working at all. These are not matters of opinion. Census data make it unmistakably clear. When it comes to full-time year-around workers, there are more heads of households who fall into that category in the top 5 percent of income earners than in...

It may be too early in this election year to determine which will be the biggest of the Big Lies in this political campaign. However, my feeling is that it may be "the working poor." While there are working people who are poor, most poor people are not working full time, not working very long, or not working at all.These are not matters of opinion. Census data make it unmistakably clear. When it comes to full-time year-around workers, there are more heads of households who fall into that category in the top 5 percent of income earners than in the...

The poor keep getting poorer Jim Behnke Sierra Vista Herald/Review Opinion When I was a kid, we only had one parent working - my dad - and we always seemed to have enough. Not plenty, but enough. This is particularly amazing in view of the fact that my dad was a preacher - you know how they overpay those guys - and had five children. Today it seems both parents have to work full time, and even then lots of families barely scrape by. The latest issue of Time magazine has a book review about this subject. The book was...

July 7, 2002 Money hungry: FOOD for Lane County considers distribution fees, other ways to pump up its sagging bottom line By SUSAN PALMER The Register-Guard TONYA HALEY went through the Creswell emergency food box line selecting lettuce, tomatoes, bananas, bread and milk. The stay-at-home mother of four needs help feeding her family. And it's not that her husband lacks a decent job. He works as a registered nurse at an Albany hospital. The simple fact is, his $20-an-hour salary doesn't stretch all the way across the monthly bills. Until last November, Haley worked, too, as a clerk in a...