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Congress directed the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) in 2015 to conduct a study of childhood poverty in the United States and identify policies and programs that would reduce childhood poverty by half over the next ten years. The National…
A study by the Urban Institute, Financial Distress among American Families: Evidence from the Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey, found financial insecurity is greatest among the lowest-income adults in the U.S. but is not restricted to them. Nearly 58% of adults with incomes below the federal…
The 2019 Prosperity Now Scorecard reports that 40% of households are liquid-asset poor, meaning they lack savings to make ends meet for three months at the poverty level if their income is interrupted. Despite a growing economy, the Scorecard shows household financial vulnerability across the…
An update on poverty from the Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution, Who Was Poor in the United States in 2017, found that 12.3% of the U.S. population, or 39.7 million residents, lived in poverty in 2017. One-third of those living in poverty were children, 22% were working-age adults in…