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Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The US. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1]
More than 46 million people — about 15% of the U.S. population — live in what the Census Bureau defines as rural areas. Poverty rates in rural communities also tend to be higher than in big ...
This list of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate covers the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of Puerto Rico and their populations' poverty rate. The four other inhabited U.S. territories ( American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands , and the U.S. Virgin Islands ) are listed separately.
Yet 2025's federal funding freeze, which threatens to undermine America’s health-care safety net, could directly impact many of the 18 million people with cancer in the U.S., a number expected ...
Research has shown that low-income families and their children face the most pressing struggles when it comes to receiving medical attention. Since its most recent reauthorization in 2018, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) aims at improving healthcare coverage for vulnerable families experiencing homelessness.
We urge Congress to support us in this work and to swiftly pass the Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2024, guaranteeing sustained assistance to this most vulnerable population, now and for ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unequal impact on different racial and ethnic groups in the United States, resulting in new disparities of health outcomes as well as exacerbating existing health and economic disparities. The pandemic struck the United States in March 2020, causing almost 2 million known cases by June 1, 2020. [1]
Two of President Donald Trump's most vulnerable administration picks will get back-to-back confirmation hearings in the Senate this week. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump nominated to be Secretary ...