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THE POOR WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US
[SOURCE: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, AUTHOR: Steve Rendall and Neil deMause]

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, 37 million Americans ­one in eight ­lived below the federal poverty line in 2005, defined as an annual income of $19,971 for a family of four.

Poverty touches a far greater share of the population over the course of their lives: A 1997 study by University of Michigan economist Rebecca Blank found that one-third of all U.S. residents will experience government-defined poverty within a 13-year period.

The poorest age group is children, with more than one in six living in official poverty at any given time. Yet despite being an issue that directly or indirectly affects a huge chunk of the U.S. population, poverty and inequality receive astonishingly little coverage on nightly network newscasts. An exhaustive search of weeknight news broadcasts on CBS, NBC and ABC found that with rare exceptions, such as the aftermath of Katrina, poverty and the poor seldom even appear on the evening news -- and when they do, they are relegated mostly to merely speaking in platitudes about their hardships.

Read more at FAIR: Poverty Undercovered in Network News: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3172