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One in 15 Americans Are Destitute

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Poor are more spread out

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As the housing bust and fewer opportunities have pushed people out of metropolitan areas, new census data reveal that more Americans are worse off than previously anticipated—one in 15 Americans are now counted among the poorest of the poor.

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