WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's poverty rate stood still at 15percent last year, the sixth straight year that it has failed toimprove.
The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 46.5 million Americans —or more than 1 in 7 — were living in poverty last year. That is notstatistically different from the number of impoverished in2011.
The median household income was $51,017, unchanged from theprevious year, following two consecutive annual declines. The shareof people without health insurance declined slightly, from 15.7percent to 15.4 percent.
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