http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/poverty/ Recent news releases on Poverty from the U.S. Census Bureau. en-us Contact the Public Information Office for further information. Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:15:40 -0500 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:15:40 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The poverty rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives in Rapid City, S.D. (50.9 percent) was around three times the rate in Anchorage, Alaska (16.6 percent) and about 30 percent or greater in five other cities most populated by this group (Gallup, N.M.; Minneapolis; Rapid City, S.D.; Shiprock, N.M.; Tucson, ... http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb13-29.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb13-29.html Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:15:40 -0500 Between 2007 and 2011, the school-age poverty rate (which covers children 5 to 17 living in families) showed a statistically significant increase in 832 counties, or 26 percent of all counties in the United States, according to data from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program released today ... http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb12-242.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb12-242.html Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:48:55 -0500 In 2011, 17.9 percent of people 18 and older lived in someone else's household, up from 16.0 percent in 2007, prior to the start of the economic recession, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. Specifically, 41.2 million adults in 2011 lived in a household in which they were neither the ... http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-224.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-224.html Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:00:54 -0500 The Census Bureau, with support from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, today released its second annual report, The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2011, describing research on a new supplemental poverty measure. This measure extends information provided by the official poverty measure, released Sept. 12, by explicitly including benefits from many ... http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/poverty/cb12-215.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/poverty/cb12-215.html Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:13:58 -0500 Topics Include Local Estimates on Income, Poverty, Health Insurance and More The U.S. Census Bureau today released findings from the 2011 American Community Survey. The survey provides a wide range of important statistics about our nation's people, housing and economy for all communities in the country. The results are used ... http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-175.html http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/cb12-175.html Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0500