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The policy response lowers projected poverty to 9.2 percent (29.3 million people), more than 3 points lower than it otherwise would have been. We also present findings by demographic subgroups, and by state. This brief was revised on July 9, 2020. On page 2, the 10 million people kept out of poverty this year by the COVID-19 response include 4 ...

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Poverty rates were largely unchanged in 2012, remaining at high levels since the Great Recession, though unemployment rates have fallen. Child poverty rates have remained high, and racial and ethnic gaps and differences by family structure remain large.

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Poverty, at 15 percent, has not risen from 2010 to 2011, while long-term unemployment has remained at record levels. Monthly data indicate poverty may have been falling through 2011. However, poverty is still as high as it has been in any year since 1965, and the safety net that protected families during the Great Recession is likely to be cut as fiscal pressure increases.

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poverty reduction to relevant ‘shared values that define social arrangements’. We start from the proposition that public perceptions of poverty and of the priority attached to poverty reduction are influenced as much by technical and policy perspectives as by shared values which define the social

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Definitions: Child poverty refers to the share of children under age 18 who live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. The federal poverty definition consists of a series of thresholds based on family size and composition. In calendar year 2019, a family of two adults and two children fell in the “poverty” category if their annual income fell below $25,926.

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Yet, children in poverty—particularly children who are persistently poor—face steep obstacles on their path to economic success. Today, nearly 9 million children in the United States (11.8 percent) will grow up in persistently poor families, meaning that they will spend at least half their lives from birth through age 17 living in poverty.

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Calculations take the estimated number of children (ages 5-17) in families in poverty divided by the total number of children (ages 5-17). Please note that this measure is not the same as free and reduced lunch, which corresponds to a different poverty threshold. Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE ...

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Definitions: Child poverty refers to the share of children under age 18 who live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. The federal poverty definition consists of a series of thresholds based on family size and composition. In calendar year 2019, a family of two adults and two children fell in the “poverty” category if their annual income fell below $25,926.

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The vast majority of low-income parents are working but still struggling to make ends meet. This fact sheet shows how low-income working families have much in common with other American families as they seek to balance work and family life, yet face much greater risk and vulnerability than their higher-income counterparts.

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