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NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel testified on September 16 before the Washington State House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee on the COVID-19 housing crisis. Yentel discussed national and Washington-specific data on housing and homelessness, racial disparities in housing, and the urgent…
Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019 and The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2019. Between 2018 and 2019, poverty continued to decrease, while median household income and earnings increased. The 2019 poverty rate of 10.5% was the lowest estimate ever reported, down 1.3 percentage points from…
NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel testified before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management during a July 28 hearing on equitable disaster recovery. The “Experiences of Vulnerable Populations During Disaster”…
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) released a report in early July, Failed Reopenings Highlight Urgent Need to Build on Federal Fiscal Support for Households and States, that illustrates how federal coronavirus spending has helped American families, and why continued spending is…