A U.S. Census Bureau report released Wednesday shows shared households increased 11.4% from 2007 to 2010. Shared households accounted for 18.7% of all households in 2010, compared with 17% in 2007. In 2010 there were 22 million shared households -- households with an "additional" adult, a person 18 or older not enrolled in school and who is neither the householder nor the spouse or partner of the householder. Compared with 27.7% of all adults in 2007, 30.1% of all adults lived in shared households in 2010. Official poverty rates for shared households were lower than for other households, while personal poverty rates of the householders were higher than householders not living in shared householders. 45.9% of additional adults in shared households had personal incomes below their poverty thresholds. "The higher personal poverty rates for adults heading shared households suggests that this group has fewer individual resources than their counterparts," said report co-author Laryssa Mykyta, a Census Bureau poverty statistics branch analyst.
 

King George III: "But what of the colonies, Mr. Pitt?" Prime Minister William Pitt: "America is now a nation, sir."  King George: "Well, we must get used to it. I have known stranger things. I once saw a sheep with five legs."
-- "The Madness of King George"
There are over 12 million people residing in the United States who immigrated here illegally. Most will never leave. Politicians can rail about them, make it harder to employ them, deny them every conceivable government benefit, but they will not go home. America is their home. Talk radio blowhards can vilify them. Natural-born citizens can grumble about hearing Spanish spoken in their communities. The government can quintuple the size of the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but they will not leave. Maricopa County’s buffoonish sheriff, Joe Arpaio, can arrest all the 6-year-olds he likes when he’s not busy investigating President Obama’s citizenship, but they will not leave.