"Near Poor" Struggling Just Above Poverty Shocking

Jason DeParle, Robert Gebeloff and Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times News Service: "When the Census Bureau this month released a new measure of poverty, meant to better count disposable income, it began altering the portrait of national need. Perhaps the most startling differences between the old measure and the new involves data the government has not yet published, showing 51 million people with incomes less than 50 percent above the poverty line. That number of Americans is 76 percent higher than the official account, published in September. All told, that places 100 million people - one in three Americans - either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it."
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