Asheville Citizen-Times reports:
The Great Recession pushed Buncombe County residents into poverty more rapidly than Americans as a whole, U.S. Census Bureau figures suggest.
Buncombe County’s poverty rate reached 17.1 percent last year while the national rate stood at 15.3 percent, according to Census Bureau estimates released last week.
That’s a switch from the middle of the last decade, when the poverty rate in Buncombe was lower than the national rate. ...Read the full article
The Great Recession pushed Buncombe County residents into poverty more rapidly than Americans as a whole, U.S. Census Bureau figures suggest.
Buncombe County’s poverty rate reached 17.1 percent last year while the national rate stood at 15.3 percent, according to Census Bureau estimates released last week.
That’s a switch from the middle of the last decade, when the poverty rate in Buncombe was lower than the national rate. ...Read the full article
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