The Census Bureau’s annual reports on poverty in America were released on Sept. 15. The reports provide three salient observations. First, that the largest reductions in poverty in the past 10 years ...

In 2018 and 2019, the United States saw the lowest poverty rates since estimates were first released in 1959. In 2019, the overall poverty rate was 10.5 percent. Two groups, Blacks and Hispanics, ...

The official U.S. poverty rate fell in 2019 for the fifth consecutive year, according to a report from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released Tuesday. The U.S. poverty rate ...

Median US household income was $68,700 in 2019, the highest since 1967, the first year records were kept, according to inflation-adjusted data released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday. That’s up 6.8% ...

Idyllic New Hampshire boasts the lowest percentage of its population living below the poverty line at 7.6% as of 2019. According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau — namely, the 2019 ...

California leads the nation in poverty among its residents, but it’s also seen the biggest drop in its poor, according to new Census Bureau data released Tuesday. An average 6 million Californians had ...