News stories saying 50 percent of Americans are low-income or in poverty may be wrong, Census analysts in LA said.
You may have heard worried news reports that 50 percent of Americans had either fallen into poverty or are considered low income.
UPDATE: Census Bureau clarifies poverty figures.
But while poverty in the United States is certainly an important issue, those figures appear to be wrong, perhaps based on a misunderstanding of the data by journalists who did not go back to the source to doublecheck their figures, said analysts at the U.S. Census Bureau district office in Los Angeles.
NBCLA worked with three data analysts at the Census Bureau to check the data, and the real figures do indeed appear to be quite different.
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gee, i wonder what other figures the census bureau may have wrong; perhaps, the census?
like there really isn’t only 7 billion on this planet, but more like 8?
1820 – 1 billion
1925 – 2 billion (105 years = 1 billion)
1960 – 3 billion (35 years)
1978 – 4 billion (18 years)
1986 – 5 billion (18 years)
1995 – 6 billion (19 years)
2004 – 7 billion (9 years)
2011 – 8 billion (7 years)
Oh well, since its only about 31% (ONE IN THREE) of people who are really poor there is nothing to worry about now, back to business as usual.