A stronger US economy lifted American household incomes in 2016 and drove the poverty rate down to the level seen before the financial crisis. The median household income increased by 3.2% to US$ ...

UNICEF announced in 2013 that the United States has the second-highest child poverty rate in the developed world. The United Nations dispatched a special team to analyze the “extreme poverty and ...

Co-authors are Yating Ru, MRP '17, Ph.D. '24; Peizan Sheng, M.S. '22; and David Matteson, professor of statistics ... current conditions from recent satellite observations. The structural poverty ...

The local poverty rate was nearly double the national average, while the rate of child poverty reached a record high. The results of the annual poverty tracker, which estimated the average family ...