Tag: Supplemental Poverty Measure
To paraphrase a U.S. senator in 1977, the moral test of government is how it treats the sick, the poor, and its children. That rings especially true during an historic public health emergency like COVID. Congress came through with financial relief to blunt the pandemic’s impact, and the money that flowed through the economy provided…
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…
