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Poverty Rate Declines, Based on Supplemental Measure of Poverty

The nation’s poverty rate declined from 16.0 percent in 2012 to 15.5 percent in 2013, according to the supplemental poverty measure released today.

What is the Supplemental Poverty Measure and How Does it Differ from the Official Measure?

In September, the U.S. Census Bureau released official poverty statistics for the United States for the 2013 calendar year.

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage: 2013

This is the annual release of national-level income, poverty and health insurance statistics from the Current Population Survey.

Poverty: The History of a Measure

President Johnson’s 1964 declaration of his “War on Poverty” generated a new interest in measuring just how many people were in poverty and how that changed.