Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...

The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released ...

Last week, for the second week in a row, new federal statistics revealed that hardship in America was at or near an all-time low in 2020—a year that saw a once-in-a-century pandemic upend economic and ...

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The nation's child poverty rate declined between 2020 and 2021, and, by one measure, fell to a record low, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday in releasing data on median household income, poverty ...

America's official poverty rate jumped to 11.4 percent in 2020, up nearly a full point from the 10.5 percent rate posted in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Income and Poverty in the United States: ...

While important gains in reducing global poverty have been made steadily since 1998, the pace of this reduction had slowed considerably in recent years. It was becoming increasingly unrealistic to ...

Few things are more frustrating than when the government releases statistics that require an explanation from technical experts for anyone to make sense of them. But flaws and unduly complicated ...

Poverty declined in 2020 by one measure following large amounts of federal aid enacted due to the coronavirus pandemic, including stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits. The so-called ...

Amid the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic recession, government aid in the form of stimulus checks and boosted unemployment payouts helped push the supplemental U.S. poverty rate down ...