Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income

  December 15, 2011 in Nation/World Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as … 31

• Poorest poor in U.S. hits new record: 1 in 15 people

  November 3, 2011 in Nation/World The ranks of America’s poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city … 30

• Wash. lawmaker wants to banish negative language

  January 12, 2010 in City Decades ago, poor children became known as “disadvantaged” to soften the stigma of poverty. Then they were “at-risk.” Now, a Washington lawmaker wants to replace those euphemisms with a new … 7