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States launch new war on poverty

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

States launch new war on poverty By Daily Hampshire Gazette 08/18/2008 Neal Peirce In a rare burst of positive news for America's hard-put poor families, 15 states have set up bipartisan commissions to see how to narrow the yawning income gaps that leave so many Americans in destitution. The advent of the commissions and serious studies - ordered up in states from Maine to Washington, Alabama to Colorado -- is good news. It's true, legislatures have struggled with welfare and Medicaid issues for years. But not gladly. In the meantime, the nationwide poverty rate has stalled around 11 percent or 12 percent for years - and that's for a family of four with income under the federally set line, now $21,200 a year. (Try living on that - a reasonable minimum for food, shelter and clothing needs would be closer to $30,000...continue to full post

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