71.   The poverty rate was even higher among Texas children.

72.   The researchers said poverty rates among working families could rise even higher under proposals with substantial congressional support.

73.   The poverty rate in Coahoma County, which includes Clarksdale, is more than double that of the country at large.

74.   The poverty rate is down.

75.   The poverty rate is soaring.

76.   The robust economy is reducing poverty rates, and the high school graduation rate among blacks is rising.

77.   The same could be asked of other states, particularly in the South, that combine high poverty rates with low spending.

78.   The state is not a major center of military spending and, with a comparatively low poverty rate, receives a small share of federal welfare spending.

79.   Then, too, the decline in the poverty rate came almost entirely as a result of a sharp drop in the South.