Millions of American families fell into poverty last year as the well of government-funded pandemic aid dried up and incomes shrank, according to new data from the U.S. Census. Children were ...

What’s the most significant news? I think the most interesting aspect of this report is the different directions the two measures of poverty went in 2023. On one hand, the official poverty measure ...

The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Median income, adjusted for inflation, fell 2.3 percent to $74,580. By Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis Poverty increased sharply last ...

Creek Street, the historic boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska. Alaska did not have the highest outright poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found that 7 million Californians lived in poverty last year. The rate of ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse has the nation’s worst child poverty among larger U.S. cities, according to new census estimates released Thursday. The city had a child poverty rate of 45.6% in estimates ...

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Syracuse, N.Y. — The child poverty rate in Syracuse fell by more than 7 percentage points in 2024, but the city still had one of the highest rates of child poverty in the nation, according to new ...

California continued to have the highest poverty rate in the nation last year at 17.7%, tied only with Louisiana, according to new data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. The state's ...

Amid Detroit's comeback, more than a third of the city's residents experienced poverty in 2024, a rate higher than any the city has seen since 2017, according to data released Thursday by the U.S.

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty over 50 ...