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Latest News

Op-Ed by Deborah Weinstein in the Huffington Post: The Recession Generation: Congress Must Act Now to Prevent Long-Term Damage (7/27/10)
Press Release: Recession Generation Report Shows Impact of Recession on Children and Young Adults (7/26/10)
Op-ed by Michael Laracy on the Huffington Post: Robert Samuelson's Misguided Portrayal of the New Poverty Measure (6/7/10)
Letter to the Editor by Melissa Boteach in the Washington Post: Time to Update Poverty Standards (6/6/10)
HNR: Improved Measure of Poverty Announced by Obama Administration (3/12/10)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CBPP: Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out of Poverty: A State-by-State Analysis (8/11/10)
The Recession Generation: Preventing Long-term Damage from Child Poverty and Young Adult Joblessness (7/23/10)
The Urban Institute: Childhood Poverty Persistence: Facts and Consequences (June 2010)
CAP: Low-Income Fathers Need to Get Connected: Helping Children and Families by Addressing Low-Income Fathers' Disconnections from Employment, Society, and Housing (June 2010)
CBPP: Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled in Last Three Decades, New Data Show (7/25/10)
CEPR: A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security (April 2010)
CLASP: Federal Policy Recommendations for 2010 and Beyond (January 2010)
NCCP: Who Are America's Poor Children? The Official Story (January 2010)

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Government Resources

BLS: A Profile of the Working Poor, 2008 (March 2010)
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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