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US poverty rate unchanged; record numbers persist : University of Michigan economist Sheldon Danziger calls the poverty figures surprising and a sign that expiring unemployment benefits were able to help workers for much of the year. The median - or midpoint - household income was $50,054. That's a 1.5 ...

Philly poverty rate remains unchanged from previous year, census says - latest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau show that Philadelphia's poverty rate for 2017 was the same as the previous year, 25.7 percent — the ...

"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent ... The most recent census numbers show poverty is on the rise. Median household incomes have fallen to their lowest level since the 1990s, prompting analysts to say we are in the midst of a "lost decade." The news that the US poverty rate is now the ...