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HNR: What They Don't (Want to) Know Can Hurt You: House Votes to Eliminate Census Bureau's American Community Survey (5/14/12) Indiana Institute for Working Families: Indiana Experiences One of the Highest Poverty Rate Increases in the Country in 2010 (9/13/11) Oregon Center for Public Policy: Oregon’s Poverty Increase Underscores Need for Action: Statement by OCPP executive director Chuck Sheketoff (9/13/11) CLASP: How Many More Have to Fall into Poverty Before We Say Enough? (9/13/11) Jodie Levin-Epstein in the Huffington Post: Poverty Reduction: The Invisible Hand of Government (9/13/11) Danielle Ewen in the Huffington Post: To Grow the Economy, We Must Pay Attention to Child Poverty (9/13/11) CLC: Children's Leadership Council Decries "Disgraceful" Continuing Trend of High Child Poverty Rate in U.S. (9/13/11) Center for American Progress: Census Data Underscore the Urgency of Enacting Job-Creation Measures (9/13/11) NELP: Millions Saved From Poverty Due to Unemployment Insurance, Social Security;Household Incomes Fall as Wages Decline (9/13/11) CEPR: New Census Numbers Make it Official: 2000-2010 Was a Lost Economic Decade (9/13/11) NWLC: NWLC Analysis of New Census Data Shows Record Numbers of Women in Poverty, Without Health Insurance (9/13/11) CBPP: Statement: Robert Greenstein, President, on Census' 2010 Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Data (9/13/11) FRAC: Census Bureau Releases New Poverty Data - SNAP Lifting 3.9 Million People Above Poverty Line (9/13/11) CBPP: Today's Census Report in Pictures (9/13/11) Half in Ten: New Poverty Data Requires Urgent Response to Create Jobs and Opportunity (9/13/11) Health Care for America Now!: HCAN Statement on Declining Number of Young Adults Without Health Insurance Coverage (9/13/11) CBPP: Why the Upcoming Poverty Numbers Matter (9/12/11) => More News
Policy Analyses and Research MassBudget: 2010 Census Analysis (9/13/11) The Social IMPACT Research Center: Midwest Struggling with Anemic Economic Recovery (9/13/11) CBPP: Making Sense of Next Week's Poverty Data (9/9/11) CBPP: The Census Bureau's Upcoming Report on Health Insurance (9/9/11) CLASP: At the Forefront: Poverty Impact Projections (August 2011)
=> More Policy Analyses and Research Census & Poverty Data US Census Bureau: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage: 2010, US Census Bureau (9/13/11)
Coalition on Human Needs Declares the Recession is Not Over for a Record-Breaking 46.2 Million Poor Americans, CHN Statement (9/13/11)
First Look: The Great Recession Has Not Ended for the Poor and Uninsured - 46 Million Poor; 50 Million Uninsured in 2010, compiled by CHN (9/13/11)
Poverty Data Resource Guide, Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (9/13/11)
Current Population Survey Data:
Poverty & Income
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Government Resources
Joint Economic Committee Tables of Census Data (8/26/08) Census report: Current Population Survey, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance 2006 (8/28/07) Census report, Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2006 American Community Survey (8/28/07) => More Government Resources
