Report: Social Security Keeping Millions Out Of Poverty
37The nation's poverty crisis would be a lot worse if it wasn't for safety net programs -- particularly Social Security, a new analysis finds.
If Social Security didn't exist, about 25 million more Americans would be in poverty, according to an analysis of 2011 Census data from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. That would push one measure of the poverty rate up from 16.1 percent to 24.4 percent, as the chart below illustrates...
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