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Arizona poverty remains among highest in nation despite recent improvements

Joel T. Vernile, Cronkite News//September 26, 2017//[read_meter]

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Arizona poverty remains among highest in nation despite recent improvements

Arizona poverty remains among highest in nation despite recent improvements

Joel T. Vernile, Cronkite News//September 26, 2017//[read_meter]

Despite posting a sharp decrease in its poverty rate over the last two years, Arizona continued to have some of the highest poverty in the nation in 2016, the latest...

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