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Poverty in America – 2010 – Health Insurance
Is a lack of health insurance in America a problem? According to Washington, it is. The Census Bureau has released the 2010 report on poverty in America. Table 8 on page 26 covers some of the data on those without health insurance. Here’s what caught my eye. The Census Bureau estimates that 16.3 percent of those living in the United States have no health insurance. 45% of all non-citizens have no health coverage. Of the 49.9 million … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Illegal Immigration and Poverty in America 2010
The Census Bureau has released the 2010 report on poverty in America. It is difficult to discover anything but estimates on the number of non-citizens living in the United States. Some of these are legal residents. Others have overstayed visas or just crossed the border without documentation. In its annual report, the Census Bureau attempts to estimate this data and the number of non-citizens living in poverty. These are estimates and could be off by hundreds of … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Immigration, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Hispanic Poverty in America 2010
The Census Bureau has released the 2010 report on poverty in America. Follow this site for in depth reports, and lots of charts, on this topic during the next week. Being Hispanic is not a race thing. It’s an identity thing. Hispanics can be members of any race or any combination of races. The actions of a few Hispanics are unfairly used to tar them all. Of 305.7 million Americans used as the baseline in the poverty … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Black Poverty in America – 2010
The Census Bureau has released the 2010 report on poverty in America. Follow this site for in depth reports, and lots of charts, on this topic during the next week. For the 2002 report, the category the Census Bureau called “Black” was changed to read “Black alone” and a new category was added called “Black alone or in combination”. For this piece, the data was drawn from the first two categories. Black poverty in America is tied … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America 2010 – the Big Picture
The Census Bureau has released the 2010 report on poverty in America. Follow this site for in depth reports, and lots of charts, on this topic during the next week. The press is making much of the actual numbers of Americans in poverty. Remember, however, that with a growing population, the numbers will increase even if the rate stays the same. Every person living in poverty matters, but it is the increase or decrease in the … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America – the Quick Take
The Census Bureau has released the 2010 report on poverty in America. Follow this site for in depth reports, and lots of charts, on this topic during the next week. Quick takes on the Census report. Income equality between women and men is unchanged from 2009, at 77%. Record was set under George Bush in 2008, 77.1%. Median income for single mom households fell 3.3%. Median income for blacks fell 3.2%. Median income in a home with … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America 2009 – Wage Parity
Wage parity between men and women in the United States is a matter of law. You cannot discriminate in wages and salaries solely on the basis of sex. Yet, in the many years since that became the law of the land, women’s wages have never reached 100% parity. There are many reason why that is. We are doing better, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual publication titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009 reveals that progress. The chart above shows the parity ratio from 2000 to 2009. In those ten years, the ratio set four records. Indeed, it is possible to state that by this measure the Bush years were good for women’s wage parity. The report may suggest one reason why parity remains just out of reach. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America 2009 – Black Poverty
The Census Bureau has released its annual report titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009. Poverty among blacks in America reached record lows during the Clinton Administration and remained at near record lows for most of the Bush Administration. There is a core of poverty among blacks, however, that seems impossible to reach and most of those living within that poverty core are in families headed by single mothers. The Census Bureau estimates that there were 38.6 million blacks in the United States in 2009. 31.3 million lived in families and of that number, 13.7 million lived in families headed by a single mother. Almost 35.5% of all blacks lived in families headed by a woman with no husband present. 25.8% of all blacks lived in poverty. For those … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America 2009 – Overview
The data and graphs derived from the data are from the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual publication titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009. The Census Bureau reports that 43.6 million Americans lived in poverty in 2009. 31.2 million were in a family, and of that number 14.7 million were in households headed by a single woman. The total United States population for 2009 was an estimated 303,820,000 people. The Census Bureau estimated that 21,573,000 people were not United States citizens and of that number, 5,425,00 lived in poverty. Just over 12% of those living in poverty in America in 2009 were not citizens while just over 7% of the total population were not. About 59% of non-citizens, according to the Census Bureau, were Hispanic. 71% of the non-citizens … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
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