(CNSNews.com)
- During the four years that marked President Barack Obama’s first term in
office, the real median income of American households dropped by $2,627 and the
number of people in poverty increased by approximately 6,667,000, according to data
released today by the Census Bureau.
The
record total of approximately 46,496,000 people in the United States who are
now in poverty, according to the Census Bureau, is more than twice the population
of Syria, which, according to the CIA, has 22,457,336 people.