Data show one in eight Americans in poverty

Data show one in eight Americans in poverty - Yahoo! News (Reuters)

This is troubling.

Especially the part about one in five children under the age of six now living in poverty.

Elsewhere in the article it's clear that the divide between the haves and the have-nots continues to grow.

On the positive side (the "haves" side of the story?), the American real median household income rose 1.1 % - now being over $46K