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Although poverty rates are ... As this chart shows, the percentage of working-age households with no-one in employment has actually seen a steady decrease over the past 20 years.

States in the South and West have the highest rates of child poverty, according to a U.S ... $6,000 in support for babies in the first year of their life as well as regular cash support throughout ...

But if the Urban Institute's projection is correct, it would mean the biggest drop in poverty rates from three years earlier, as seen in the chart. Aid during the pandemic has given some Americans ...

Throughout the pandemic, researchers from Zhejiang University, University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame have tracked US poverty rates. In March 2021, pandemic-era poverty reached a ...