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    Southern poverty rate rises in 2012, overall U.S. rate holds steady

    While new Census Bureau data suggests the number of Americans in poverty stood at 15% in 2012, unchanged from the year previous, the Southern region saw its poverty rate rise 0.5% to 16.5%—the h…


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