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and the 1990s average (13.8%). The 12.7% rate is also lower than the average rate for 60% of any of the four-year sites periods you sites can choose from 1960 on. As far as four-year increases go, the percentage increase from 2000-2004 (1.4 percentage points) is not particularly large. The four-year trend ending sites in 1993 was up 2.3 percentage points, and the trend in 1982 was up 3.6 percentage points. You may also have noticed that the rate of growth in poverty is slowing — up 0.2 percentage points from 2003-2004 compared to 0.4 points for 2002-2003. The broader context is exactly the opposite of what you have claimed. Poverty has declined significantly over the past half-century. That decline has not been steady, there are a number of periods where the rate went up, but the overall trend is clear. The US has slipped since 2000, but that slip is, put into historical context, quite small. [ ...reply just to this | comment on the story... | next new ] 29. Check your logic by Catch22 at Wed 31 Aug 11:02amscore of 1.5
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