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To: coug who wrote (35299)	8/31/2005 12:21:46 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 361271

Bush becomes president, poverty rates rise every year thereafter. Coincidence? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. poverty rate rose in 2004 for the fourth year in a row, driven by an increase in poor whites, the government said on Tuesday in a report that White House critics called proof the economic recovery has bypassed most Americans. The percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty rose to 12.7 percent from 12.5 percent in 2003, the Census Bureau said in its annual poverty report. The ranks of the poor rose to 37.0 million, as 1.1 million more people slipped into poverty from the previous year, the report said. The Bush administration called the 2004 increase "modest" and said the rise was not altogether surprising because poverty rates improve more slowly than unemployment rates or the economy in general after a recession.