Tag: 2015 poverty report
Unlike the official poverty rate, the supplemental rate shows retirees and kids are similar. The Census publication Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015 was full of widely reported good news. Median household income was up and poverty was down. More recently, the Census has released its report The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2015. This…
But the distribution of household income provides one more wake-up call. The headlines from the new Census publication – Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015 – were that median household income increased by 5.2 percent and that the percentage of households in poverty dropped by 1.2 percentage points. That is wonderful news indeed…
