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National:
JTA: Religious Communities: Fight Poverty with Green Jobs by Eric Fingerhut (10/13/09)
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)
CBPP: Statement of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on Census' 2008 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Data (9/10/09)
WOW: New Poverty Suggest Long Road to Economic Security Without Education, Training (9/10/09)
NWLC: Women's Private Health Coverage, Incomes Decline While Poverty Increases, Census Data Show (9/10/09)
Families USA: Census Bureau Finds the Number of Uninsured Grew to 46.3 Million in 2008 (9/10/09)
CCF: Number of Uninsured Children Drops to Lowest Level Since 1987, Outlook Bleaker for Parents and Other Adults (9/10/09)
State:
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)
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)
OCCP: Census Data Show No Oregon Progress in Expanding Health Coverage or Reducing Poverty (9/10/09)
NCLR: Latino Poverty and Income in Focus: Examining the 2008 Census Data (11/6/09)
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)
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:
Current Population Survey Data:
Poverty & Income
Health Insurance
Key Poverty Data Sources: CPS vs. ACS
by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 2009
September 10
Current Population Survey (CPS) national economic data (income, poverty, and health insurance data) and some state data (health insurance and some state income and poverty data).
September 22
American Community Survey 2008 poverty and income data for state, locality, county, school district, and congressional district. Also lots of other social, demographic and housing data (including education, immigrant status, racial/ethnic breakdowns, family composition, disability status).
New: Health insurance data for some geographic areas; also data about veterans' service connected disabilities and about marital history.
October 27
Data for geographic areas with populations of 20,000 or more.
Suggested Text for Letters to the Editor (two sample letters provided)
(9/2/09)
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