Economic Indicators
Income & Poverty
Updated: November 12, 2011
Annual analysis of the Census Bureau’s family income data.
Weak economic recovery reflected in high state-level poverty and child poverty rates
| 1:56 pm, September 22, 2011
New American Community Survey (ACS) poverty data for 2010 released today by the US Census Bureau paint a painful picture of families paying the price for an economic recovery that has left far too many of them behind. The combined impact …
Posted September 22, 2011 |
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Poverty rates of households with children, married couples and female-headed households, 1959-2010
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Productivity and real median family income growth, 1947-2010
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Real income growth for different income percentiles diverged in the 1970s, with real incomes flattening in the 20th percentile and the median, and increasing in the 95th percentile
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Previous reports
A lost decade: Poverty and income trends continue to paint a bleak picture for working families
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 12:09 pm
A lost decade: Poverty and income trends paint a bleak picture for working families
Posted on September 16, 2010 | 3:58 pm
New 2008 poverty, income data reveal only tip of the recession iceberg
Posted on September 10, 2009 | 12:34 pm
