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From: "Nancy Krieger" <nkrieger at hsph.harvard.edu>

  American Community Survey data
   Income Stable, Poverty Rate Increases, Percentage of Americans Without
                         Health Insurance Unchanged

  Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and
2004 at $44,389, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census
Bureau. Meanwhile, the nationÿÿs official poverty rate rose from 12.5
percent in 2003 to 12.7 percent in 2004. The percentage of the nationÿÿs
population without health insurance coverage remained stable, at 15.7
percent in 2004. The number of people with health insurance increased by
2.0 million to 245.3 million between 2003 and 2004, and the number without
such coverage rose by 800,000 to 45.8 million.