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Virginia’s poverty rate drops to 10.1 percent



Virginia’s poverty rate has fallen by a full percentage point, to about 10 percent, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The proportion of Virginians living in poverty dropped from 11.1 percent in 2015-16 to 10.1 percent in 2017-18, the data showed. The state’s poverty rate remained well below the national rate, which averaged 12 percent for […]

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