The Census Bureau will release official 2011 poverty figures on September 12. If the figures show that poverty rose, as some analysts predict, two key factors will almost certainly be a reduction in unemployment insurance benefits in 2011 and a decline in public-sector jobs, particularly among state and local government workers.
In Early Data, Two Factors Explain a Rise in Poverty
A preliminary analysis of Census data for the first 11 months of 2011 (which are the latest data now …