US working-age poverty highest for 45 years

The number of Americans living in poverty jumped to 14.3% in 2009, with the ranks of working-age poor reaching the highest since at least 1965, according to the US Census Bureau.

About 43.6 million people, or 1 in 7, were in poverty. That is up from 39.8 million, or 13.2%, in 2008.