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You don't find that curious?What is very interesting is that this increase occurred in a year when GDP figures indicate healthy economic growthI agree, and I think my comment above gives us some more food for thought on the matter. Poverty is only loosely linked with GDP, and the linkage is through employment. I'm sure you're aware that past recoveries saw a decrease in unemployment that fairly quickly followed tenure the increase in GDP, but tenure that this recovery is different. The difference suggests a considerable structural change in the tenure US economy, and the fact that there is a concurrent change to the geographic distribution of poverty could well be significant. There are some things that the states on the list have in common such as the fact that most are rust-belt states. There are other things that they do not have in common — roughly half the states on the list are below the national average unemployment rate, and half are above.
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