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Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009; Image title: Current Population Reports, Consumer Income; Author: U.S. Census Bureau: Unique ID of original document: adobe:docid:indd:f950e127-f452-11dd-883c-b1e553b1148c: Date and time of digitizing: 11:59, 7 September 2010: File change date and time: 05:49, 16 ...
The poverty guidelines are a version of the poverty thresholds used by federal agencies for administrative purposes, such as determining eligibility for federal assistance programs. They are useful because poverty thresholds for one calendar year are not published until the summer of the next calendar year; poverty guidelines, on the other hand ...
The latest statistics on median income, poverty, and people without health insurance are in, and they make clear the severity of the recession in the U.S. Real U.S. median household income fell 3. ...
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 ...
Poverty among the elderly is now nearly twice the normal rate. Traditionally, 10 percent of Americans over age 65 live below the poverty line, but the National Academy of Science has developed a ...
Put this one decidedly in the good news category: the Obama administration is expected to announce a $262 billion reduction in this year's budget deficit to $1.58 trillion. Earlier, the Obama ...
The reasoning for using Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is due to its action for distributive purposes under the direction of Health and Human Services. So FPL is a tool derived from the threshold but can be used to show eligibility for certain federal programs. [85] Federal poverty levels have direct effects on individuals' healthcare.
Income inequality was the largest driver of the change in the poverty rate, with economic growth, family structure, education and race other important factors. [131] [132] An estimated 11.8% of Americans lived in poverty in 2018, [133] versus 16% in 2012 and 26% in 1967. [134]