"When I'm dressed up, people come close to me, they hug me, they kiss me, smile at me," Mr. Vasquez said in Spanish as he worked at the corner of Broadway and West 48th Street recently. "When I don't have my costume on, people don't talk to me."
About 46.2 million Americans, or 15% of the population, live in poverty, the highest level recorded by the Census Bureau in 27 years.
"Street View Goes to the Amazon" (Google):
A few members of our Brazil and U.S. Street View and Google Earth Outreach teams are currently in the Amazon rainforest using our Street View technology to capture images of the river, surrounding forests and adjacent river communities.
Citigroup last quarter mailed 346 million credit-card offers, according to research firm Mail Monitor, more than one for every man, woman and child in the U.S.
5.9 million Americans between ages 25 and 34 live with their parents, the 2010 Census found, up 26% from before the recession.
Women represent 40% of the world’s labor force but hold just 1% of the world’s wealth, according to the World Bank.
