The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half in 2021, thanks mainly to a one-year enhancement of the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Some 5.2% of ...

Coming out of the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty levels in Dallas County showed in 2021 a minimal decline from previous years, although they remained higher than the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - While median income and overall poverty rates did not change much in the United States in 2021 during the second year of the pandemic, Cleveland remains the big city in Ohio with the ...

An important set of economic numbers were reported Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, that tell us about poverty. The official poverty rate was 11.6% in 2021, basically unchanged from 2020. It’s a ...

A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies also showed a reduction of almost half in the number of children below the poverty level. By Lydia DePillis and Jason DeParle A second year of ...

The U.S. poverty rate saw its largest one-year increase in history. 12.4% of Americans now live in poverty according to new 2022 data from the U.S. census, an increase from 7.4% in 2021. Child poverty ...

The childhood poverty rate in Utah decreased by 0.3% between 2021 and 2022, according to data from the Census Bureau’s Small Area Income and Poverty Program. This story is part of The Salt Lake ...

Poverty in New York state continues to outpace national levels and those of neighboring states, with racial minorities and other historically marginalized groups bearing the heaviest burden, according ...

Research released last year by the Census Bureau found that the official U.S. poverty rate was 11.5% across the United States in 2022, the most recent year data are available. That was little changed ...