Christians Respond to Higher U.S. Poverty Rate

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    Antoine Reyes, second from left, and his wife Susan, center, help their daughters with homework in a family shelter at Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. The family moved into a shelter after Reyes lost his job 16 months ago. The ranks of the working-age poor climbed to the highest level since the 1960s as the recession threw millions of people out of work last year, leaving one in seven Americans in poverty.
By Nathan Black , Christian Post Reporter
September 17, 2010|8:05 am
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