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The Pew Research Center said its recent polling shows that a majority of Americans – for the first time in 15 years of being surveyed on the question – oppose more government spending to help the poor.

The aging Emptying Nests saw a jump of 330,000 in poverty over this period -- a two percentage-point increase in the poverty rate.

The chart below shows the poverty rate for each for the types as well as the increase in the number of people living in poverty from 2000 and for the five-year average of 2005-2009.