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American Community Survey State Data:
Current Population Survey State Data:
Joint Economic Committee Tables
State and Regional Data on Employment and Unemployment, July 2008
US. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 8/15/08.
Food Stamp Participation in May 2008 Sets Another Record High (state data)
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).
National
CHN Statement on New Census Bureau Data on Poverty (8/26/08)
CBPP Statement on New Census Bureau Data for 2007 (8/26/08)
TPMCafe: Trickle Down . . . R.I.P. by Jared Bernstein (8/26/08)
Families USA: Number of Uninsured Decreased; But Census Report Shows Growing Health Coverage Problems (8/26/08)
First Focus: Census Data Shows Thousands of New Children Living in Poverty (8/26/08)
Center for Children and Families Statement on New Census Data on Uninsured Children (8/26/08)
WOW: New Poverty Data Offers Only a Glimpse of the Struggle Women and Elders Face to Make Ends Meet (8/26/08)
IWPR: Gender Wage Gap Narrows as Incomes Rose in 2007 (8/26/08)
Catholic Charities USA Calls New Poverty Rate Unacceptable (8/26/08)
NWLC: No Progress in Reducing Women's Poverty, Limited Gains for Women in 2007, Census Data Show (8/26/08)
AFSC: War Funds Should be Spent to Reduce Poverty, Quaker Group Says (8/26/08)
State
Charleston Gazette, WV: Good News: Census Data Show Income Gains in W.V. by Rick Wilson (9/7/08)
Traverse City Record-Eagle, MI: Forum: Growing Poverty Requires Response by Sharon Parks (9/5/08)
Akron Beacon- Journal, OH: End the War, Invest at Home by Greg Coleridge (9/4/08)
The Press of Atlantic City, NJ: Poverty is Real - and Getting Worse by Albert B. Kelly (9/1/08)
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA: A Credit to Help Low-Income familiesby Joanne Carter (9/1/08)
The Gazette, IA: Helping Those in Need Can Boost Economy by Diane John-Smith (8/31/08)
Missoulian.com, MT: Help Working Poor, Help the Economy (8/29/08)
NJ Jewish News: We Must Act Now! (8/28/08)
St. Paul Pioneer Press, MN: While the Economy Expanded, many Minnesotans lost ground (8/27/08)
Hartford Courant, CT: Rate of People Without Health Insurance Drops in State (8/27/08)
National:
CBPP: Poverty and Share of Americans Without Health Insurance Were Higher in 2007 - and Median Income for Working-Age Households was Lower - Than at Bottom of Last Recession (8/26/08)
EPI: Median Income Rose as Did Poverty in 2007 (8/26/08)
Half in Ten Campaign: Stalled Progress on Poverty (8/26/08)
CBPP: What to Watch for in the New Census Income and Poverty Numbers (8/21/08)
Jared Bernstein, posted on Huffington Post: Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance: What to Expect and Why It Really Matters (8/17/08)
IWPR: The Gender Wage Gap: 2007 (8/26/08)
Families USA: Still Too Many Uninsured Children (August 2008)
State
Heartland Alliance: Nationally, Overall Poverty Rate Unchanged, Household Income Rises, Number of Uninsured Down in 2007 (8/26/08) (Geographic-specific factsheets available)
Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center:
Background Materials
CHN & ECAP: Towards a Shared Recovery: Congress Must Do More to Reverse the Recession (updated 9/9/08)
CBPP: 13 Million Children Would Benefit From Child Credit Expansion in Tax "Extenders" Bill: Families of Nursing Home Aides, Cooks, Pre-School Teachers, and Construction Workers Would Get a Boost (7/29/08)
FRAC Facts: The Impact of Rising Food Costs on Low-Income Americans (August 2008)
Garner and Short: Creating a Consistent Poverty Measure over Time - Using NAS Procedures: 1996-2005 (5/20/08)
CAP: From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half (4/25/07)
(8/19/08)
Submit a Letter to the Editor! A simple way to deliver an anti-poverty message.
Sample letters are provided and an easy way to send a letter to the paper of your choice.
Tables to Help You Show Your State's Poverty Trends - Make Comparisons Back as Early as 2000 by CBPP
These tables will allow you to compare your state's 2007 numbers for total poverty, child poverty, family poverty, and median income to previous years. In each document, the first worsheet provides instructions on how to draw these comparisons. Click on the tabs at the bottom of the document to access the tables for the various poverty trends.
August 26
American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS) economic data: income, poverty.
CPS: health insurance data.
September 23
ACS social, demographic and housing data (including education, marital status, ancestry, place of birth, transportation, vets’ status) –1 year comparisons.
December
New: data for all areas of 20,000 population or more.
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