Claim: Under President Barack Obama, "more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago."
Fact-check: Gingrich says more Americans in poverty than at any time since the statistic was first calculated
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-11-10T00:00:00