Computations for the 2019 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
| (1) Persons in family or household |
(2) Poverty thresholds for 2017 — published Sep. 2018a |
(3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.024426 inflation factorb |
(4) Difference between successive Column 3 entries |
(5) Average difference in Column 4c |
(6) |
(7) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
$12,448 | $12,793 | Nearest $20 |
$12,140 |
$12,490 | |
| 2 | $15,877 | $16,265 | $3,472 | $4,420 | $16,460 | $16,910 |
| 3 | $19,515 | $19,992 | $3,727 | $4,420 | $20,780 | $21,330 |
| 4 | $25,094 | $25,707 | $5,715 | $4,420 | $25,100 | $25,750 |
| 5 | $29,714 | $30,440 | $4,733 | $4,420 | $29,420 | $30,170 |
| 6 | $33,618 | $34,439 | $3,999 | $4,420 | $33,740 | $34,590 |
| 7 | $38,173 | $39,105 | $4,666 | $4,420 | $38,060 | $39,010 |
| 8 | $42,684 | $43,727 | $4,621 | $4,420 | $42,380 | $43,430 |
Notes:
a Column 2 entries are weighted average poverty thresholds from U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2017, Current Population Reports, Series P60-252. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, September 2018, Appendix B.
bThe Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) for all items was 245.120 for calendar year 2017 and 251.107 for calendar year 2018, an increase of 2.44 percent.
c The arithmetic average of Column 4 entries, rounded to the nearest multiple of $20.