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US Household Incomes Hit All-Time High, Poverty Falls to Record Low: Census Bureau

By Andrew Moran U.S. households registered their highest income levels ever last year, while the poverty rate fell to a record low, new government data released on Sept. 15 showed....

The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as a...

The Grim Reality Behind a New Census Report

Americans' incomes hit a record high in 2025. Now for the bad news.

The typical U.S. household's annual earnings have risen only 2.5% since 2019, new data from the Census Bureau shows.

Census: U.S. Poverty Rate Hits Lowest on Record as Incomes Set New High

The U.S. poverty rate fell to the lowest level on record in 2025 while median household income climbed to a record high, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. The official poverty rate d...

Census Bureau: Uninsurance rates held steady from 2024-2025

There were 26.7 million people nationwide who were uninsured across all of 2025, statistically the same as in 2024, though Medicare numbers increased while Medicaid dipped, accordi...

US household income rose to record in 2025 as poverty fell

Social Security benefits lifted 28.8 million out of poverty, while refundable tax credits helped 6.1 million.

Census data shows US poverty rate drops to lowest on record, but experts are cautious

The official poverty rate in the United States dipped slightly by half a percentage point last year to a historic low of 10.2%, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesda...

Census data shows US poverty rate drops to lowest on record, but experts are cautious

The official poverty rate in the United States dipped slightly by half a percentage point last year to a historic low of 10.2%, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesda...

Here’s the Typical Household Wealth at Every Age

Census Bureau data shows that when it comes to household wealth, older unmarried women close the gap with unmarried men.

Hey–here’s an R package for imputing Census data using iterative proportional fitting on available margins.

Gustavo pointed us to this project (see also here) by David Dorer to impute data to lower census levels (block/tract) from PUMAs (public use microdata areas, as defined by the U.S....

Parents Gave $26.6 Billion

About 2.6 million U.S. parents provided $26.6 billion in financial support to 3.7 million children 21 or over who lived outside their households, according to the U.S. Census Burea...

U.S. Household Income Rose in 2025 to Record High as Poverty Fell

The median household’s inflation-adjusted income increased 2.6% last year to $87,460, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual report on income, poverty, and health insurance c...

Louisiana poverty rate hits 1 in 5 residents as Census data reveals income gap

BATON ROUGE — New Census Bureau data shows Louisiana has the highest poverty rate in the nation, with one in five residents living below the poverty line.The data, releas...

The 2030 US Census Raises A Bigger Question: Who Counts In America?

Family income rose and poverty fell in 2025 — but safety net cuts could erase gains

An annual report from the Census Bureau shows the average family made more money in 2025 than the year before, while the official poverty rate declined. Health care coverage was li...

Poverty Rate Was Stable Before Trump’s Safety Net Cuts Gained Force

Median household income rose to a record $87,460 in 2025, according to annual Census Bureau data on the financial well-being of Americans.

New Census Data Show Importance of Refundable Tax Credits and Need for Improvements

The Child Tax Credit actually moved fewer children out of poverty in 2025 than it did in 2024 prior to Congress passing the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA).

Survey Says: Americans Are Undivided on the Urgency to Change the Census to Strengthen Elections

Mapped: Single-Income Families by State

Nearly three in 10 married couples with children live on one income. See which states have the highest shares.

Census changes proposed by Trump administration put accuracy, money for NC at risk, critics say

At its core, U.S. census data is about money, government representation, and community visibility.  The Trump administration has proposed changing the census to stop counting nonci...

What’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 16, 2026

This map of the New York City region shows how people described their backgrounds to the Census Bureau. What do you notice?

Demographic Facts College Students Should Know in 2026

A collection of essential demographic statistics gives college students a clearer picture of population, age, race and ethnicity, immigration, education, income, poverty, employmen...

StatCan says Canada’s 2026 census participation was among highest ever

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the response rate for this year's census of the population was 98.4 per cent, one of the highest ever recorded.