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US Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War

NEW YORK - It is one of the most affluent countries in the world, but still millions of people in the United States find it very difficult to put a nice meal on their dinner table.

Nationwide, more than 36 million people, or nearly 13 percent of the total population, lived in poverty last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau report released this week.

Among those officially considered "poor," over one third are children, most of them non-white minorities such as African Americans, Latinos, and Asians.