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Poverty in the United States: 2022

This report presents data on poverty in the United States based on information...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income and Povert...
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-280.html

U.S. Poverty Rate Varies by Age Groups

The poverty rate for the nation’s oldest populations was lower than for the...but increased in 2022 while child poverty decreased....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you...
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/12/poverty-rate-varies-by-age-groups.html

Historical Poverty Tables: Poverty by Definition of Income (R&D)

Detailed annual tables on poverty across a number of individual and family characteristics...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing I...
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-income.html

Persistent Poverty: Identifying Areas With Long-Term High Poverty

...introduces a proposed expanded definition of persistent poverty at subcounty levels....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housi...
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/05/persistent-poverty-areas-with-long-term-high-poverty.html

Income and Poverty in the United States: 2020

...income, earnings, income inequality & poverty in the United States based on information...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income a...
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.html

Changing the Way the United States Measures Income and Poverty

...alternative definitions of income and considerations in measuring poverty....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income ...
https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1997/demo/weinberg-01.html

Income in the United States: 2022

An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income and Poverty International Trade Migration/Geographic...
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-279.html

NAICS Codes & Understanding Industry Classification Systems

...including the structure, sector definitions, & codes not covered....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income and Poverty Inte...
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census/year/2022/guidance/understanding-naics.html

How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty

Learn how poverty thresholds are assigned and what sources of income are used...used to determine poverty status....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here...
https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/guidance/poverty-measures.html

Changing the Way the United States Measures Income and Poverty

...both income measurement and poverty definition issues....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income and Poverty Internat...
https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1996/demo/weinberg-01.html

"Poverty Rate Declines, Based on Supplemental Measure of Poverty"

The nation’s poverty rate declined from 16.0 percent in 2012 to 15.5 percent...2013, according to the supplemental poverty measure released today....An official website of the United States governmen...
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/archives/2014-pr/cb14-188.html

Government Assistance Lifts 45.4 Million Out of Poverty in 2021

The 2021 U.S. official poverty rate of 11.6% was not statistically different...different from 2020 but the Supplemental Poverty Measure at 7.8% was lowest on record...An official website of th...
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/09/government-assistance-lifts-millions-out-of-poverty.html

How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty

Learn how poverty thresholds are assigned and what sources of income are used...used to determine poverty status....An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here...
https://www.census.gov/topics/income-poverty/poverty/guidance/poverty-measures.html

Revision in Poverty Statistics, 1959 to 1968

...describes modifications in the definition of poverty adopted in 1969 and the effect...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housin...
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1969/demo/p23-028.html

Subject Definitions

...Definitions of some of the more common terms used by CPS...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income and Poverty...
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/technical-documentation/subject-definitions.html

Is There Such a Thing as an Absolute Poverty Line Over Time?

One of the central questions in discussions and debates about poverty definition...definition and measurement is whether poverty lines should be "absolute" or "relative...An official website of https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/1995/demo/fisher-01.html

Difference Between the Supplemental and Official Poverty Measures

...to measure poverty in the U.S. since the first official U.S. poverty statistics...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income an...
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2023/09/difference-supplemental-and-official-poverty-measures.html

Poverty Statistics: CPS & SAIPE (Time Series: various years)

...describes two API endpoints containing poverty data: the Current Population Survey...Survey (CPS) & Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)...An official website of the United States gover...
https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/Poverty-Statistics.html

The Difference Between the Supplemental and Official Poverty Measures

...and poverty in the United States since the first official U.S. poverty statistics...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income ...
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2022/09/difference-supplemental-and-official-poverty-measures.html

The Difference Between Supplemental and Official Poverty Measures

...and poverty in the United States since the first official U.S. poverty statistics...An official website of the United States government Here’s how you know Here’s...Hispanic Origin Housing Income ...
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2021/09/difference-between-supplemental-and-official-poverty-measures.html

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