Alternative Income and Poverty Estimates: 2008 “The Census Bureau released alternative income and poverty estimates covering calendar year 2008. The data were collected from the 2009 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC). The first set of alternative measures include poverty estimates only and are based on recommendations from a 1995… Continue Reading
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Census Releases Data on Cities and Poverty Rates
Current Population Survey (CPS), 2009 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), the source of official poverty estimates: “The official poverty rate in 2008 was 13.2 percent, up from 12.5 percent in 2007. This was the first statistically significant annual increase in the poverty rate since 2004, when poverty increased to 12.7 percent from 12.5 percent… Continue Reading
Urban Institute: Poverty in the United States, 2008
Commentary: “..the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the U.S. poverty rate reached 13.2 percent in 2008. Even this significant increase from the 12.5 percent rate in 2007 surely understates the share of Americans struggling to make ends meet today in September 2009. The Census poverty data are based on the incomes of individuals and families… Continue Reading
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between 2007 and 2008, from $52,163 to $50,303. This breaks a string of three years of annual income increases and coincides with the recession that started in December 2007. The nations official poverty rate in… Continue Reading
Report: Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net
Center for Studying Health System Change – Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net, Research Brief No. 13, July 2009, Laurie E. Felland, Johanna Lauer, Peter J. Cunningham Although suburban poverty has increased in the past decade, the availability of health care services for low-income and uninsured people in the suburbs has not kept… Continue Reading
New Poverty Guidelines Posted on Bankruptcy Page
US Court: “New poverty guidelines for 2009, needed by persons seeking fee waivers when filing for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code, have been posted. Guidelines and Other Bankruptcy Resources.” Continue Reading
2009 Poverty Guidelines – One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
Health and Human Services 2009 Poverty Guidelines: There are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure: The poverty thresholds, and The poverty guidelines. The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure. They are updated each year by the Census Bureau (although they were originally developed by Mollie Orshansky of… Continue Reading
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Recession Could Push Millions into Deep Poverty
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Recession Could Push Millions into Deep Poverty, by Sharon Parrott. November 24, 2008. “Like previous recessions, the current downturn is likely to cause significant increases both in the number of Americans who are poor and the number living in deep poverty, with incomes below half of the poverty line.… Continue Reading
Transforming the Fight Against Poverty: The Internet & Anti-Poverty Strategies
News release: “The Internet will be the catalyst for advancement of programs promoting social justice over the next decade, according to new research from Harvard Professor Elaine C. Kamarck, PhD. The research paper, titled Transforming the Fight Against Poverty: The Internet & Anti-Poverty Strategies, addresses how the Internet has enhanced productivity in government run anti-poverty… Continue Reading
Rand: Effects of Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Poverty on Health and Racial Health Disparities
The Place We Live, the Health We Have – A Multi-Level, Life Course Perspective on the Effects of Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Poverty on Health and Racial Health Disparities, by D. Phuong Do, Rand Dissertation “Although our choices and behaviors are inherently expressed at the individual level, they are often influenced and constrained by the… Continue Reading
Reversal of Fortune: A New Look at Concentrated Poverty in the 2000s
“The Federal Reserve System and its 12 member banks partnered with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program to produce a new, in-depth look at concentrated poverty in America. The two-year study, The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America – Case Studies from Communities Across the U.S., October 2008, profiles 16 high-poverty communities across the United… Continue Reading
Recent CRS Reports: Presidential Succession, Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2006, Oil Industry Financial Performance
October 08, 2008 – Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations October 06, 2008 – Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction Over Military Court Cases October 03, 2008 – Presidential Succession: Perspectives, Contemporary Analysis, and 110th Congress Proposed Legislation October 03, 2008 – Income and Poverty Among Older Americans in 2006 September 30, 2008 –… Continue Reading
