Poverty is the most urgent issue of this moment in time WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: Activists attend a rally held by "The Poor People's Campaign" on June 29, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released on Thursday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President ...

The one thing the old formula is good for is comparing poverty rates over time. It crested in 1993 at 15.1 percent. Afterward, it declined steadily for eight years but started climbing again in 2001.

And 6.4% of Suffolk residents are living below the poverty line. However those percentages still translate to Nassau having more than 72,000 people living below the poverty line.

The child poverty rate, as measured by the SPM, jumped from a historic low of 5.2% in 2021 to 12.4% in 2022, the Census said. That's the largest change in child poverty since the Census began ...

The city and county of Mobile, where poverty rates declined significantly – from 22.9% to 15.2% and 19.1 to 15.8%, respectively. Baldwin County, where the poverty rate fell from 13.4% to 9.7%.

The report comes in the wake of new U.S. Census data that show the child poverty rate doubled and median family income declined in 2022, when a variety of government benefits instituted during the ...

The supplemental poverty measure rate rose to 12.4% in 2022, up from the 7.8% in 2021, bureau officials said during an online news conference, and was even higher than the pre-pandemic rate of 11. ...

Overall, the supplemental poverty rate was 12.4% for 2022, up from 7.8% a year earlier and higher than it was prior to the pandemic. It’s the first increase in the rate since 2010.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - More than half of children live in poverty in four Ohio cities, including East Cleveland. In another 33 cities, the child poverty rate is at least 33%, according to new estimates ...

The Black poverty rate hit a record low during Trump’s presidency in 2019 at 18.8%. The poverty rate has fallen further under Biden’s presidency, hitting 17.1% in 2022, the last year for which ...

Argentina's poverty rate rocketed to 52.9% in the first half of 2024, the government's INDEC statistics agency said on Thursday, surging from 40.1% a year earlier.