Poverty & Economic Well-Being

List of articles related to economic mobility, economic inequality, and poverty.

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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…

NLIHC Releases Out of Reach 2021 Spanish Edition (Fuera de Alzance 2021)

NLIHC has released Fuera de Alcance: El Alto Costo de la Vivienda 2021, the Spanish-language edition of Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing 2021, highlighting the mismatch between wages people earn and the price of decent rental housing in every state, metro area, and county in the U.S. The…