Margaret Chase Smith Center Report Updates State’s Poverty Data

The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, in conjunction with the Maine Community Action Association, today released a county-by-county report on poverty in Maine (PDF) revealing that, based on recently released figures from the U.S. Census, 12.9 percent of the state’s population was living in poverty in 2009-2010, up from 12.4 percent in read more Margaret Chase Smith Center Report Updates State’s Poverty Data