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Latest News
Op-ed by Wade Henderson and John Podesta on Politico: Heed King: Cut Poverty for All (1/15/09)
CHN: Grim Census Data on Poverty Points to Growing Need Even Before Unemployment Skyrocketed this Year: Uninsured numbers reflect the importance of public health insurance programs (9/10/09)
CBPP: Statement of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on Census' 2008 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Data (9/10/09)
NWLC: Women's Private Health Coverage, Incomes Decline While Poverty Increases, Census Data Show (9/10/09)

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Policy Analyses and Research

NCCP: Who Are America's Poor Children? The Official Story (January 2010)
First Focus & Brookings: The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty: Poverty Statistics for 2008 and Growth in Need During 2009 (December 2009)
CBPP: State-Level Data Show Recovery Act Protecting Millions from Poverty: Act Also Saving and Creating Jobs, Boosting Economy (12/17/09)
IPS, CCC, JwJ & Legal Momentum: Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net is Failing Americans and How to Fix It (12/7/09)
CLASP: Measure by Measure: The Current Poverty Measure v. the National Academy of Sciences Measures (November 2009)

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Government Resources

GAO: Poverty In America: Economic Research Shows Adverse Impacts on Health Status and Other Social Conditions as well as the Economic Growth Rate (January 2007)
HHS: The 2007 HHS Poverty Guidelines


Census & Poverty Data
A First Look: More Poor and More Uninsured, compiled by CHN (9/10/09)
Pre-Recession Poverty and Warnings of Rising Rates: Poverty, Unemployment and SNAP Data, compiled by CHN (updated 9/10/09)
Poverty by State: 1999-2000 to 2007-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/10/09)
Poverty by State: 2000-2001 to 2007-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/10/09)
Percentage of People in Poverty by State: 1999/2000 and 2007/2008, Current Population Survey, provided to the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (9/10/09)
Number of People in Poverty by State: 1999/2000 and 2007/2008, Current Population Survey, provided to the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (9/10/09)
Median Household Income by State: 2000-2001 to 2007-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/10/09)
Income of Households by State Using 2-Year-Average Medians (Income in 2008 dollars), Current Population Survey, provided to the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (9/10/09)

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