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Supplemental Poverty Measure Shows Marked Decreases in Poverty

The U.S. Census Bureau released Income in the United States: 2021 and Poverty in the United States: 2021 on September 13. The reports present income and poverty estimates based on the 2021 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC), which includes household level…

Stimulus Payments, Other Programs Kept Millions of People Out of Poverty in 2020

A set of three reports from the United States Census Bureau—Income and Poverty in the United States: 2020, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2020, and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2020—examine trends in household income and the important effects of social welfare programs in 2020…