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Figure 3.1  Percent below poverty line, all races, US

 

1959

22.4

1960

22.2

1961

21.9

1962

21.0

1963

19.5

1964

19.0

1965

17.3

1966

14.7

1967

14.2

1968

12.8

1969

12.1

1970

12.6

1871

12.5

1972

11.9

1973

11.1

1974

11.2

1975

12.3

1976

11.8

1977

11.6

1978

11.4

1979

11.7

1980

13.0

1981

14.0

1982

15.0

1983

15.2

1984

14.4

1985

14.0

1986

13.6

1987

13.4

1988

13.0

1989

12.8

1990

13.5

1991

14.2

1992

14.8

1993

15.1

1994

14.5

Source:  U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1997 (Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), p. 472.