Libertyville Review
September 8, 2008
An estimated 42,197 Lake County residents were living below the poverty line in 2007 and most experts expect those numbers to increase this year. Lake County’s poverty rate jumped to 6.1 percent in 2007, up from 5.6 percent in 2006, according to just released Census data, compiled in a report by the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance.
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