On August 26, the Census Bureau released new data on poverty and health insurance coverage for 2007. The statistics show that, despite economic growth over the past few years, the number of Americans living in poverty was greater in 2007 than in the recession year of 2001.
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The Associations for Community Reform Now (ACORN), an organizational outlet for low- and middle-income families for over three decades, held its biannual national conference in Detroit on June 22 and 23. Predatory loans and the foreclosure crisis were a major focus of the event, and thousands of attendees were also introduced to the Half in Ten campaign. Co-sponsored by ACORN, along with the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and the Coalition on Human Needs, the new effort aims to reduce poverty by half over the next ten years.
