Working-age poor population highest since ’60s

Working-age America is the new face of poverty.

Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent
recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new
working-age poor represent nearly 3 out of 5 poor people — a switch from
the early 1970s when children made up the main impoverished group.

While much of the shift in poverty is due to demographic
changes — Americans are having fewer children than before — the
now-weakened economy and limited government safety net for workers are heightening
the effect.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44413750/ns/business-us_business/By HOPE YEN — Associated Press