Census Bureau: President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: WASHINGTON - The nation's poverty rate remained stuck at 15 per cent last year despite America's slowly reviving economy, a discouraging lack of improvement for the record 46.5 million poor and an unwelcome benchmark for President Barack Obama's recovery plans. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We're in the doldrums, with high poverty and inequality as the new normal for the foreseeable future," said Timothy Smeeding, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in income inequality. "The fact we've seen no real recovery in employment and wages means we've just flatlined." FILE - In this April 4, 2013 file photo, a group of boys walk past a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore. The nation's poverty rate stood still at 15 percent in 2012, the sixth straight year that it has failed to improve. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, that 46.5 million Americans were living in poverty in 2012.. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File More than 1 in 7 Americans were living in poverty, not statistically different from the 46.2 million of 2011 and the sixth straight year the rate had failed to improve, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Median income for the nation's households was $51,017, also unchanged from the previous year after two consecutive annual declines, while the share of people without health insurance did improve but only a bit, from 15.7 per cent to 15.4 per cent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.