WASHINGTON (AP) -- Poverty rose and income levels declined in 2002 for the second straight year as the nation's economy continued struggling after the first recession in a decade, the Census Bureau reported Friday....

Bill Spriggs, director of research and public policy at the National Urban League, said the numbers were frightening. ``This may become one of the worst downturns in income in 30 years,'' he said. ``We see that people are digging themselves deeper into poverty because the economy is not generating jobs.''

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