The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities just released a great short piece on poverty and hardship, in advance of the Christmas and New Year's Holidays. Some of the highlights:
- 36.5 million Americans are poor
- 35.5 million Americans are food insecure (at risk of hunger)
- 16 million low-income households are in unaffordable, overcrowded or substandard housing
- 47 millions Americans had no health insurance for all of last year
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