1989. much has changed in nearly the 30 years since pope john paul s visit. in this country, we deeply appreciate the involvement of the in the situation in northern ireland. elsewhere, the fall of totalitarian regimes has allowed greater freedom for hundreds of millions of people. the continues to have an important role in international issues in support of peace and development and in addressing common problems like poverty and climate change. your presence here today reminds us of our common christian heritage and of the christian contribution to the encouragement of world peace and
that came out from a chief adviser to the pope, likening london in particular and great britain, to a third world country? t.j., you and i have talked before, the vatican seems to have a special genius for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. this would be another case and point. the retired official, who was the vatican s top official for more than a decade, said that in an interview with a german newspaper and it has been a fairly big deal in the british press today and on the street. a lot of people are taking it as a poke in the why. what the vatican said he meant is that the u.k. is an increasedly multicultural society. anybody who knows him knows he s a sophisticated guy. i m sure he didn t mean to give offense, but in the court of.
keeping track of such numbers. let me break down what is poverty. what does that mean these days? let s break this down for you this way. if it s a family of four making less than $21,954 annually, that is defined as poverty for a couple making less than $13,991, and for an individual making less than $10,956 in those categories is defined as poverty. for the most part in just about every reenlg ochbt country, we saw the rate go up except for in the northeast where the number remained about stable. also across the ethnic groups, just about every group except for asians went up. for asians, it remained about flat, as well. i talked about these numbers try to get perspective last hour from a professor who runs the group at the university of wisconsin at madison that deals with poverty number. take a listen.
first mass of a four day state visit to britain, the first trip to britain by a pope since 1982. they had a pretty messy break up back in the 16th century. today the queen herself gave the pope a royal welcome. joining me now with more, phil, we appreciate you being here. i see a crowd behind you there. there was so much talk about about possibly this pope was not going to be able to draw huge crowds. what have you been seeing so far? keep in mind, too, opinion polls show that most in this country are indifferent or hostile to the pope coming here, but he s had a pretty good day and tended here just a short time ago with a mass where more than 60,000 people, they say as many as 100,000 people, gathered, came to share just a few hours of the pope s company. his day started when he arrived
youth. you ll meet him. also you ve heard the story about that tv reporter who is leveling harassment allegations against the new york jets pap lot of people are talking about this story now and saying should what she was wearing to work have anything to do with this conversation. i had a conversation with some of my female colleagues about it. and they went off. i ll share my thoughts in today s xyz. but first new poverty numbers from the accept sus bureau today. it paints a picture we were expecting for to paint. it s a picture that you re probably already familiar with. and what we re seeing is that in 2009, the poverty rate in this country has shot up. it shot up to 14.3%. that s the highest poverty rate we ve seen in this country since 1994. it is also the highest as far as just shear numbers of people who are living in poverty now, the highest number of americans living in poverty in the 51 years that they have been