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The report said that 44 million people, or one in seven residents, lived in poverty in the United States in 2009, the highest rate since 1994.

The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.

More than half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers who show symptoms of mild to severe depression, potentially creating problems in parenting and in child development, according to a new study.

Many low-income urban areas across the United States have epidemics of HIV, with 2.1 percent of heterosexuals in poverty-stricken urban areas infected with the incurable AIDS virus, U.S. scientists said on Monday.

In 2008, the median household income in the United States plummeted 3.6% from the year before, and the percentage of people living in poverty soared to an 11-year high, recently released U.S. Census data reveals.

Just as Rafiq Qureshi's denial about a report claiming he tried to sell his actress daughter made its rounds, the 'Slumdog Millionaire' story gets even stranger as Rubina Ali's mother and step-mother got into a full-on fistfight with photographers there to catch every blow.

Pope Benedict XVI sought to give a message of hope on Easter Sunday to victims of wars, poverty and financial turmoil, saying ...