Dec 3, 2012 ... ... her speech, Buono (D-Middlesex) claimed that "the number of Americans living  at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.
Jul 11, 2014 ... Despite Johnson's goal of launching a "war against poverty," Cox said ...  Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years." ... That's the  highest number going back to 1960, when 39.9 million lived below the poverty  line. ... Had it stayed at that level, there would be 70 million Americans in ...
Jul 11, 2012 ... The poverty rate went down, and stayed down ... First, there was a huge fall in the  poverty rate throughout the 1960s, and in particular after LBJ announced the War  on Poverty in 1964 and followed up with ... The most recent numbers we have are  for 2010, and that year's rate - 15.1 percent - is about as high ...
Aug 20, 2018 ... After reaching 23 percent in 1993—the highest rate since ... Eight percent of  children lived in families in deep poverty (below 50 percent of the poverty  threshold). ... In 2016, the SPM yielded a child poverty rate of 15 percent, down  from 18 percent ... Hispanic and black children are much more likely to live in ...
United States stood at 19.0 percent in 1964 and decreased by 4.2 .... those with  the lowest levels of education, and among individuals and families living in ...  1960s. But official poverty among those without a high school degree remains  about 15 ... In 1964, 36.1 million Americans lived below the official poverty  threshold. A ...
Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.