National News Roundup

The percentage of young, full-time workers earning less than the federally defined poverty level more than doubled during the 1980's and early 1990's, according to a report by the U.S. Census Bureau.

In 1992, 47 percent of full-time workers ages 18 to 24 made less than $13,091 a year, the report's inflation-adjusted poverty level for a family of four. In 1979, 23 percent of that age group earned less than the poverty level.

Among all ages in 1992, the report says, 18 percent of full-time workers made less than the poverty level, compared with...