News release includes links to data: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that in 2011, median household income declined, the poverty rate was not statistically different from the previous year and the percentage of people without health insurance coverage decreased. Real median household income in the United States in 2011 was $50,054, a 1.5 percent… Continue Reading
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Census – Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage: 2011
Census – How We Measure Poverty and Income Fact Sheet: Income and Poverty 2011 Fact Sheet: Health Insurance 2011 Continue Reading
Declines in Unemployment Benefits and Government Employment Shaped Poverty Trends in 2011
Declines in Unemployment Benefits and Government Employment Shaped Poverty Trends in 2011, Preliminary Data Suggest, by Arloc Sherman and Danilo Trisi, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 7, 2012 “A preliminary analysis of Census data for the first 11 months of 2011 (which are the latest data now available) indicates that the average share… Continue Reading
U.S. poverty rates higher, safety net weaker than in peer countries
U.S. poverty rates higher, safety net weaker than in peer countries. by Elise Gould and Hilary Wething | July 24, 2012, Issue Brief #339 “Poverty rates in the United States increased over the 2000s, a trend exacerbated by the Great Recession and its aftermath. By 2010, just over 46 million people fell below the U.S.… Continue Reading
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2012
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2012. The Institute for Fiscal Studies, June 2012 “Each year, the government produces statistics about the distribution of income in the UK (‘Households Below Average Incomes’ or HBAI). The data underlying the HBAI statistics have the potential to provide a wide range of information about poverty, inequality… Continue Reading
Time Trends in Poverty for Older Americans Between 20012009
Time Trends in Poverty for Older Americans Between 20012009 – April 2012, Vol. 33, No. 4. Employee Benefit Research Institute, 2012 “Generally, poverty rates fell from 20012005 for almost all age groups, and then started rising. This correlates to the two economic recessions that occurred during the last decade. During this period, poverty rates rose… Continue Reading
Alleviating Poverty in the United States: The Critical Role of SNAP Benefits
Alleviating Poverty in the United States: The Critical Role of SNAP Benefits, by Laura Tiehen, Dean Jolliffe, and Craig Gundersen – Economic Research Report No. (ERR-132) 30 pp, April 2012 “The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the largest safety net programs in the United States, serving 44.7 million individuals in an average… Continue Reading
Census – Special Tabulation of Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates
Special Tabulation of Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates – This special tabulation of estimates using the Supplemental Poverty Measure were prepared at the request of the New York Times. It consists of five tables: Estimates of the number of people with incomes/resources between 100 and 150 percent of their poverty thresholds by different poverty measures and… Continue Reading
Census – Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 20062010
Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 20062010, American Community Survey Briefs, December 2011 “People living in poverty tend to be clustered in certain neighborhoods rather than being evenly distributed across geographic areas. Measuring this concentration of poverty is important because researchers have found that living in areas with many other poor people places burdens on low-income families… Continue Reading
Child Poverty by Selected Race Groups and Hispanic Origin: 2009 and 2010
New release: This brief, “based on the 2009 and 2010 American Community Survey, compares national- and state-level child poverty rates for all children and for children by race group and Hispanic origin for each state and the District of Columbia. Highlights: More than 15 million U.S. children ages 0 to 17 lived in poverty in… Continue Reading
Poverty and Financial Distress Would Have Been Substantially Worse in 2010 Without Government Action, New Census Data Show
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, By Arloc Sherman, November 7, 2011 “Six temporary federal initiatives enacted in 2009 and 2010 to bolster the economy by lifting consumers incomes and purchases kept nearly 7 million Americans out of poverty in 2010, under an alternative measure of poverty that takes into account the impact of government… Continue Reading
New World Bank Group Strategy to Help Brazil Lift 16 Million from Extreme Poverty by 2014
News release: “A new World Bank Group initiative will help Brazils efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the country, the World Bank announced today. The Banks Board approved a US$ 8 billion new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Brazil, which will guide the Groups overall program in the country for the fiscal years 2012-2015. The… Continue Reading
