text: LSC uses census data to determine funding across the nation , and according to the census , the state 's poverty population fell from an estimated 1.2 million in 1990 to an estimated 968,000 in 2000 .
  
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  Although census data showed a decline in poverty population from 1990-200 , 2010 census data showed the poverty population from 1990 had nearly doubled .