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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…
The U.S. Census Bureau released Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates: 2017 on December 3. These data provide annual estimates of income and poverty for all U.S. counties and school districts. The Estimates show that U.S. counties have vast disparities of poverty rates, and most have the same or…
The Federal Reserve Board released its fifth annual Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households on May 22, based on a survey of more than 12,000 adults. Seventy-four percent of adults reported either doing okay financially or living comfortably in 2017, which is four percentage points…