AP Report on Poverty Study

An Associated Press story about a report on poverty in Maine, prepared by UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy, which will be released Thursday, was noted on the website of Bangor TV station WABI. The report found that the 2010 poverty rate of 12.5 percent was up from 11.4 percent in 2009.

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