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The number of Americans living in poverty or lack of health insurance has increased for the third year of law 2003, the Census Bureau announced yesterday, which is in a labour market which are not otherwise adapt to strong economic growth.

Overall, the median household incomes have stagnated at $ 43318, while the national rate of poverty increased to 12.5% - 35.9 million people - last year 12.1 per cent in 2002. The harshest were women, for the first time since 1999, saw their profits decline, and children. Until the end of 2003, 12.9 million children live in poverty.

As expected, the number of people without health insurance grew last year to 45 million - an increase of 15.6 per cent to 15.2 per cent. White adults, especially in the south, account for the bulk of the increase. The proportion of people, health insurance through an employer fell to 60.4 percent, its lowest level in a decade, 61.3 percent.

The last census figures provided in relation to evidence that the recent recovery has missed some regions and population groups. Another 1.3 million Americans fell below the poverty line in 2003, as income from diving for the poorest 20 per cent of the population. Another 1.4 million unversichert has been revamped.

“This recovery is not to reach in the bottom half,” said Jared Bernstein, a chief economist with the Economic Policy Institute.

When President Bush prepared to head to New York for the Republican National Convention yesterday, there was an opening data Democrats for selection to his alleged weakness of the traditional bread and butter issues.

“While George Bush tries to convince America’s families that we are turning the corner, slogans and empty rhetoric can not hide the real story,” said Senator John F. Kerry (Mass.), the Democratic presidential candidates. “Under George Bush’s Watch, America’s lost even more families.”

Bush campaigns in New Mexico, had no comment. Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans said the census data cast a glance “back in time to an economy that was much weaker”, as it is today. He anticipated that the figures that Bush will improve “continue to push very hard to establish the right conditions and business climate for job growth and broader health coverage.

But the report of population census was in total opposition to a market economy and a warehouse, grew rapidly during 2003, especially in the second half of the year. “The effects of a sustained recovery of unemployed is all about these results,” said Bernstein.

With fewer people working and fewer small businesses offering health coverage who are not insured number is probably high, until the unemployment rate declining by about 4 percent, said Paul Fronstin, Senior Research Associate to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

“It’s not just how many people have jobs, but it is the nature of jobs,” he said. “Even if people are employed, they are less likely, where access to insurance.”

In this region, more people were without health care in both 2003 and 2002. In Virginia, which is not insured increased by 13.3 percent from 12.2 percent in both Maryland and the District, it rose to 13.6 percent from 12.8 percent.

The national poverty rate rose from 1993 to 2000, when their depression by 11.3 percent. In the next three years, more than 4.3 million people fell below the poverty line, and the median budget for the property fell by more than $ 1500 in units and inflation.

On the ground, the poverty rate increased in Virginia to 10 per cent of 8.9 per cent, and in Maryland to 8 percent from 7.3 percent, according to the Census Bureau’s two-year average. In the district, it was 0.7 per cent, but 16.9 per cent, it remained higher than the national average.

The poverty line is not a single coherent figure, it varies with time and family size. In 2003, the average poverty threshold for a single person, $ 9393. For a family of four, it was $ 18,810. Despite the recent increase in the poverty rate, the rate remained below the average for the years 1980 and 1990 years.

Economic aspects - including the availability and accessibility of health insurance - as there are top for voters. In some recent “Washington Post” and Gallup polls, voters, the president is not better than 51 per cent of its agreement with the management of the economy, and in a head-to-head matchup with Kerry on issues economic policy, Bush has drawn on its 41 percent Challenger’s 52 per cent.

The report showed yesterday that several Swing States have increased poverty rate is the proportion of uninsured or both - including Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington , West Virginia and Wisconsin.

“It is certainly not the message that the president had hoped,” said Rea S. Hederman Jr., Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation.

Particularly children from a large part of the new poor, who represent more than half of the total 733000 increase, given that more young people slipped below the poverty line. The number of families in poverty headed by a single mother jumped from 1.5 to 3.9 million.

H. Sheldon Danziger, co-director of the National Center of Poverty at the University of Michigan, said the increase of poverty in the Fallout Welfare Reform Act 1996. “Because the new Government policy to reward the benefits of work, single mothers, were employees receive additional support, if jobs were plentiful but are struggling now that the economy has less than 1.2 million jobs.

“You have fine when the economy is booming, and even the beginning of the recession,” he said. “But now there’s an increase in the number of women who have no work and no prosperity.”

Hederman disagreed with Gdansk and noted that the poverty rate for children, even if you opt for the year to 17.6 per cent, is still well below where it 20.5 per cent in 1996.

“You have a lot of people, poverty and left, not yet back to beyond the economic slowdown,” he said.

The single mothers were not helped by the fact that the merits of women as a whole has suffered, rose by 0.6 per cent. Women 76 cents for every dollar earned by men during 2003, compared to 77 cents in 2002. Others felt the tingling contain Hispanics, whose median income fell 2.6 percent last year.