Data & Resources

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)

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)

Key Poverty Data Sources: CPS vs. ACS
by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 2009

Advocacy Tools

Suggested Text for Letters to the Editor (two sample letters provided)

Briefing:

“The Recession’s First Impact: Lost Jobs, Income, and Health Insurance in 2008 ” (9/2/09)

• Listen & Watch (Note: Must view via Internet Explorer)
• Presentation slides:
  • “Economic Context – Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the US: 2008″
    John Irons, Research and Policy Director, Economic Policy Institute
  • “Using Poverty and Income Data to Shape State Budget Debates”
    Nicholas Johnson, Director, State Fiscal Project, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • “Getting and Using the Data: Taking the Crunch Out of the Numbers”
    Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

Timetable for Release of 2008 Data

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.