CLEVELAND, Ohio - While median income and overall poverty rates did not change much in the United States in 2021 during the second year of the pandemic, Cleveland remains the big city in Ohio with the ...

The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half last year, thanks mainly to the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Some 5.2% of children were in poverty ...

Federal aid caused child poverty nationwide to drop significantly in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but organizations working to help low-income families in Lancaster County say they’re ...

An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released this week found that 7 million California residents — 17.7% of the population ...

A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies also showed a reduction of almost half in the number of children below the poverty level. By Lydia DePillis and Jason DeParle A second year of ...

Living off Social Security alone, the financial website Motley Fool warns, “your income would be barely above the poverty level.” Georgetown University retirement policy expert Angela Antonelli agrees ...

Poverty among Black children in the United States dropped nearly half from 2020 to 2021, following the expansion of the child tax credit, according to U.S. Census Bureau supplemental poverty measure ...

The U.S. Census Bureau measures poverty by comparing a household’s pre-tax income to a set poverty threshold. This threshold is the amount of money needed to cover basic needs. While some states have ...

Speaking to Black voters in Wisconsin, Biden repeated his claim that Black child poverty was cut in half in 2021. PolitiFact checked that claim in 2023, and found supplemental poverty numbers backed ...