State’s rate of uninsured was highest in the nation, census shows
Austin American-Statesman—September 22nd, 2009
About one in four people in Austin (24.3 percent) lacked health insurance in 2008, according to findings released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey. Texas had the highest rate (24.1 percent) of uninsured in the nation. The one-year estimates of social, economic, demographic and housing data provide a moving picture of change for the nation’s population, rather than a once-a-decade snapshot.
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