America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Poverty Rate for People in Female-Householder Families Lowest on Record
The official poverty rate declined 0.5 percentage points from 12.3% to 11.8% in 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This amounts to 1.4 million fewer people in poverty.
While both the poverty rate and the number of people in poverty fell for many demographic groups between 2017 and 2018, a large proportion of the decline can be attributed to female-householder families with no spouse present.
In 2018, workers in female-householder families worked full-time, year-round at a greater rate, with employment changes concentrated among blacks and Hispanics. Poverty rates for all people in all female-householder families dropped by 1.7 percentage points, to 26.8%, the lowest rate for this group on record.
Female-householder families were the only family type to experience a statistically significant decrease in poverty between 2017 and 2018. Continue Reading...
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