US DATA: Census Bureau earlier released poverty data, estimating
that US real median household income in 2010 was $49,445, -2.3% from
2009. The nation’s official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent, up
from 14.3 percent in 2009 – the third consecutive annual increase in the
poverty rate. There were 46.2 million people in poverty in 2010, up from
43.6 million in 2009. See http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/
archives/income_wealth/cb11-157.html