A family of four that earned less than about twenty-two thousand dollars last year was considered to be living below the poverty line.
Also, the number of people with health insurance decreased last year -- the first drop since records began in nineteen eighty-seven. Almost seventeen percent of the population lacked coverage.
People can lose insurance when they lose their jobs or change to part-time work. The health care law passed by Congress in March aims to get almost every Americans insured in the coming years.
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
Includes reporting by Avi Arditti, Jim Malone and Nico Colombant
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