USA Today – Marisol Bello and Paul Overberg
“While the overall percentage of people living in poverty nationwide did not change significantly between 2010 and 2011, individual states saw increases in overall poverty and poverty among children and the unemployed. Seventeen states saw poverty go up, while 14 saw increases in child poverty and more than half, 27 states, had increases in the number of unemployed people living in poverty last year.” (more)