Pandemic-era poverty levels reached a new high in March 2021, right as a new stimulus was passed. That $1.9 trillion package contains several measures that could drastically cut poverty.

New projections from the Urban Institute find the poverty rate will drop to 7.7% in 2021. The New York Times reported that would be a decline of about 45% from 2018. Researchers credited stimulus ...

In March, researchers at Columbia led by Zachary Parolin estimated that as a result of President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, the US poverty rate would fall to 8.5 percent in 2021, the ...

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In the US, the median wealth is only $45,000, compared to an average wealth per person of more than $250,000. Here are some other chart-tastic findings from the report.

As in many parts of the world, coronavirus lockdown measures very quickly led to soaring levels of unemployment in the US. The rate jumped to 14.7% in April, the highest level since the Great ...

The static nature of poverty is especially surprising because (as Chart 1 also shows) poverty fell dramatically during the period before the War on Poverty began. In 1950, the poverty rate was 32. ...

The poverty rates for married couples with children (a group largely unaffected by AFDC and its reform) fell modestly between 1995 and 2005 but by 2014 had risen above the 1995 levels.

Nearly all large metro areas ended the decade with lower median incomes than in 2000. From 2000 to 2010, incomes declined in 91 of the 100 largest metro areas, and poverty rose in 88.

By the numbers: 8.6% of residents in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial area, or about 257,000 people, lived below the poverty line in 2023, up from 8.3% the year before and 7.9% in 2019, per the Census ...