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By Doug Cunningham

New U.S. Census Bureau poverty numbers were released this week. As corporations spend millions of dollars to lavishly entertain and hustle delegates to the Democratic National Convention millions of Americans who desparately need politicians to end poverty are suffering. Candy Hill of Catholic Charities USA says hundreds of thousands more Americans are living in poverty his year than last.

[Hill]: “So eight hundred thousand more people living in poverty in 2007 than in 2006. And of that number 500,000 are children. The increase is 500,000 in children and 200,000 in seniors. And for us that's just morally wrong. We feel that any increase - or even if the number is staying flat - is unacceptable in this country."

Hill says America lacks a powerful devoted social movement committed to ending poverty. Catholic Charities believes that is immoral and must be changed.