New statistics tell the sad tale of poverty as a policy choice

The child poverty rate in the US more than doubled from 2021 to 2022 (5.2 percent to 12.4 percent), with 5.1 million kids sliding below the poverty line in one ...

New Data Makes Clear Poverty is a Policy Choice

Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau released new data showing what we had feared: a devastating rise in U.S. poverty.

FTC challenges power of corporations over ... - Politics of Poverty

... Politics of Poverty. Ideas and analysis from Oxfam America's policy experts ... new rule that would ban so-called "noncompete ... statistics tell the sad tale of ...

2023 Census Poverty Data Reveal Uncertain Progress and ...

Census data paint a complicated picture of progress against poverty in 2023, as the national poverty rate fell, rose, or held steady ...

Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 as Aid Ended and Prices Rose

The poverty rate for those under 18 rose to 12.4 percent last year. ... Note: Data are the supplemental poverty rates, which adjust for geographic ...

The War on Poverty: Measurement, Trends, and Policy - PMC

The total appropriation for just those pro-poor programs mentioned equaled nearly $300 billion. Because of these expenditures targeted on lower-income families, ...

Census data shows us poverty is a policy choice

As mentioned, the American Community Survey tracks poverty solely based on monetary income. Because New Mexico has worked to improve income and ...

Poverty is a policy choice. Which side are you on? - Yahoo

It is critical that we pay attention to the impact of these programs on this broader population of the 140 million, because it offers a more ...

Private opulence, public squalor: How the U.S. helps the rich ... - NPR

Poverty, by America author Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year: ...

Assembly Select Committee on Select Committee on Poverty and ...

I firmly believe that if harmful and inaccurate narratives can lead to bad policy choices. Devin Gray. Person. Then telling an accurate story ...

Poverty, not the poor | Science Advances

Using data from the mid-1950s, Orshansky developed a rule of thumb that food amounted to roughly one-third of expenses for typical households.

Poverty stigma: a glue that holds poverty in place

These poverty statistics are shocking, shameful. Yet we know that poverty in the UK is a political choice. Poverty is an outcome of policies ...

Matthew Desmond on America's Addiction to Poverty

According to the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, 14.3 percent of Americans — nearly 50 million people — were ...

Census Data Underscores That Poverty Is A Policy Choice

Overall poverty was 12.4%, 4.6 percentage points higher than 2021, also the highest one-year increase ever; Non-citizens experienced ...

The sad, sad story of the UNICEF Child Poverty Report and its critics

Relative poverty rates are not poverty at all, they are measures of inequality, the critique continues, and as such can never be eliminated. An ...

Effects of poverty | CPAG

Having so many families and their children in poverty draws huge costs from other government budgets: poorer physical and mental health impacts the NHS, poorer ...

Presenting welfare reform: poverty porn, telling sad stories or ...

Much is written about the suffering resulting from welfare reform and other cuts for disabled people and others on the receiving end. Usually this is seen as a ...

Poverty is a political choice, Michener tells NYS Senate

Testifying before the state Senate's Standing Committee on Cities 2, during a hearing on the causes and effects of poverty in New York's medium- ...

Census.gov | U.S. Census Bureau Homepage

The Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.

A deadly virus: 5 shocking facts about global extreme inequality

Or they can choose an economy centered on equality, in which nobody lives in poverty, and neither does anyone live with unimaginable billionaire wealth; in ...