Tag: 2015 poverty report

baby hand on old hand

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 is a good time to look at poverty rates for different portions of t…

Two colleagues looking at data on a computer screen

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.   A less publicized part of the report pertains to t…