Census reports poverty increase

The Census Bureau has released its Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004 report (actual text in 3.7-MB PDF here) and the news is perhaps predictably not beautiful. Median income steady, poverty rate up from 12.5% to 12.7%, and a steady 15.7% without health insurance.

Meanwhile Prof. David Brady of Duke University notes that official formulas undercount the true number of Americans in poverty. He says the undercount probably skips more than 10 million people.