Human Needs Statistics

Background
Background on human needs statistics
State-by-state statistical data

Latest News

Missoulian, MT: Remember Those Living in Poverty by Terry Kendrick (10/27/09)
Omaha World-Herald, NE: Midland Voices: Health Reform can be Remedy by Beatty Brasch (10/14/09)
San Antonio Express-News, TX: Strengthen the poor for jobs and for life by Jilani Chaudry, Judy Lackritz and Alejandro Siller-Gonzales (10/14/09)
JTA: Religious Communities: Fight Poverty with Green Jobs by Eric Fingerhut (10/13/09)
JCOnline.com, IN: Poverty Will Only Grow, So Help Now by Patti O'Callaghan (10/11/09)
Times Union, NY: Fight Poverty, for Kids' Sake by Kristin Brown Lilley and Denise Harlow (10/5/09)
Pressconnects.com, NY: New Poverty Data by Carole Coppens (10/2/09)
Half in Ten, CAP Action Release Poverty Data by Congressional District (10/2/09)
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)

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Policy Analyses and Research

NCLR: Latino Poverty and Income in Focus: Examining the 2008 Census Data (11/6/09)
NCLR: The State of Latino Children and Youth in the United States (10/21/09)
CHN: More Poor, More Uninsured in 2008 (revised 10/5/09)
NWLC: Poverty Among Women and Families, 2000-2008: Recession Deepens Poverty (September 2009)
EPI: New 2008 Poverty, Income Data Reveal Only Tip of the Recession Iceberg (9/10/09)
CAP: Poverty in the Obama Era: New Census Numbers Fail to Reflect the Severity of Inherited Problems (9/10/09)
CBPP: Poverty Rose, Median Income Declined, and Job-Based Health Insurance Continued to Weaken in 2008: Recession Likely to Expand Ranks of Poor and Uninsured in 2009 and 2010 (9/10/09)
CBPP: Private Health Coverage Declined, Became Less Secure in 2008: New Census Data Underscore Importance of Comprehensive Health Reform (9/10/09)
CBPP: Top 1 Percent of Americans Reaped Two-Thirds of Income Gains in Last Economic Expansion: Income Concentration in 2007 Was at Highest Level Since 1928, New Analysis Shows (9/9/09)

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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)

American Community Survey Data:

• State-by-State Total Poverty: 2000-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/29/09)
• State-by-State Family Poverty: 2000-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/29/09)
• State-by-State Child Poverty: 2000-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/29/09)
• State-by-State Median Income: 2000-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/22/09)
• Key 2008 Poverty Statistics for your Congressional District (includes gender and race breakdowns), Compiled by Half in Ten: From Poverty to Prosperity (9/29/09)
• Poverty Levels in Fifty Large Cities and Metropolitan Areas, Calculations by CHN (10/1/09)
• State-by-State Poverty Rates for Women, Children and Men, Calculations by NWLC (September 2009)

Current Population Survey Data:

Poverty & Income

• 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, provided to the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (9/10/09)
• Number of People in Poverty by State: 1999/2000 and 2007/2008, 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), provided to the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (9/10/09)

Health Insurance

• Health Insurance Status: 2000-2001 to 2007-2008, Calculations by CBPP and CHN (9/10/09)
• Number of People Without Health Insurance: 1999/2000 and 2007/2008, provided to the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress (9/10/09)
• Health Insurance Coverage of Children under 18, by State, 2007-2008, by Center for Children and Families (9/10/09)
• Women without Health Insurance by State, 2007-2008, Calculations by NWLC (September 2009)

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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)

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