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  2. List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate - Wikipedia

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    The data source for the main list is the U.S. Census Bureau's five-year American Community Survey taken 2016 - 2020. [1] The American Community Survey is a large demographic survey collected throughout the year using mailed questionnaires, telephone interviews, and visits from Census Bureau field representatives to about 3.5 million household ...

  3. Poverty thresholds (United States Census Bureau) - Wikipedia

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    For statistical purposes (e.g., counting the poor population), the United States Census Bureau uses a set of annual income levels, the poverty thresholds, slightly different from the federal poverty guidelines. As with the poverty guidelines, they represent a federal government estimate of the point below which a household of a given size has ...

  4. Concentrated poverty - Wikipedia

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    Following the 1970 census, attribute-based measures were translated to purely statistical ones, defining "low-income areas" as census tracts with 20%–39% of inhabitants falling under the poverty line, and labeling areas with 40% or more impoverished inhabitants as "high" or "extreme" poverty. Calibration of household income statistics most ...

  5. Map: These US states have the highest rates of long-term poverty

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    Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by the US Census Bureau. Persistent poverty can be defined as an area that has consistently ...

  6. Poverty in the U.S. increased last year, even as incomes rose ...

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    Data released Tuesday shows for every $1 men earn, women earn 82.7 cents. ... Child poverty also rose in 2023, the Census Bureau announced, as more families with low-incomes struggled to pay for ...

  7. US incomes rose last year but poverty rates changed little ...

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    But the report also showed a main gauge of the nation's poverty rate, adjusted for government support such as food assistance and tax credits as well as household expenses, rose to 12.9% from 12.4 ...

  8. List of lowest-income places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The data below is for annual median household income in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — the data is based on 2013–2017 American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau; populations are also from the 2013–2017 American Community Survey. [1] [note 3] Places with a population of over 1,000 are shown in bold.

  9. Americans Got Poorer in 2010, Census Bureau Reports - AOL

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    According to Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance. The Great Recession officially ended in mid-2009, but a recent Census Bureau report shows that, for the average American family, the first full ...