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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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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.
In 2008, the maximum annual income needed for a family of four to fall within 100% of the federal poverty guidelines was $21,200, while 200% of the poverty guidelines was $42,400. [29] Other states have similar CHIP guidelines, with some states being more generous or restrictive in the number of children they allow into the program. [30]
One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial Supreme Court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion, entrenching a two-tiered health care system in America, where the uninsured rate remains disproportionately high ...