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Poverty Measures

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Information on the Supplemental Poverty Measure - A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data (October 2014)

The brief summarizes findings from the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure report for 2013. The brief highlights SPM levels for the most recent year, changes from the previous year and historical trends.  SPM estimates are compared to estimates of the official poverty measure.

Information on the Supplemental Poverty Measure - A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data

The brief summarizes findings from the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure report for 2013. The brief highlights SPM levels for the most recent year, changes from the previous year and historical trends. SPM estimates are compared to estimates of the official poverty measure.
Report to Congress

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Thirteenth Report to Congress

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators of welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared by ASPE’s Office of Human Services Policy.

America's Children in Poverty: A New Look at Who's Poor Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure

This research brief examines child poverty in 2010 using both the official poverty measure that the Census Bureau has been using since the 1960s and the more recent Research Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM).

Supplemental Poverty Measure Brief: 2009-2012

This brief summarizes data released by the Census Bureau on the research supplemental poverty measure.

Change in Child Poverty by Selected Demographic Characteristics: 2007-2012

This brief analyzes and summarizes changes in child poverty from 2007-2012. Cited statistics include changes in the poverty rate and number of children in poverty by age, race and ethnicity, family type, and immigrant generation.

Change in Child Poverty by Select Demographic Characteristics: 2007-2012

Since the Great Recession poverty has increased overall and particularly for children. Nearly all of the increase in child poverty occurred between 2007 and 2010 with the national rate rising by 3.8 percentage points, as shown by the orange bars (from 18.0 percent to 21.8 percent). In 2011 and 2012 the national poverty rate leveled off with little change, as shown by the green bars.