Poverty in America 2006
The Census Bureau has issued its annual report titled Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 report [PDF]. As I have done for the last several years, I’ll pick at the report and provide you with dome information and graphs.
Here are the highlights from the press release:
About 9.8 percent (7.7 million) of the nation’s families were in poverty in 2006. Married-couple families had a poverty rate of 4.9 percent (2.9 million), compared with 28.3 percent (4.1 million) for female-householder, no-husband-present families and 13.2 percent (671,000) for those with a male householder and no wife present. The poverty rate for these types of families in poverty showed no statistically significant change between 2005 and 2006.
For Hispanics, 20.6 percent were in poverty in 2006, down from 21.8 percent in 2005. Poverty rates remained statistically unchanged for non-Hispanic whites (8.2 percent), blacks (24.3 percent) and Asians (10.3 percent) in 2006.
For people 65 and older, the poverty rate was lower (9.4 percent) in 2006 than in 2005 (10.1 percent). For children younger than 18 (17.4 percent) and people 18 to 64 (10.8 percent), the poverty rate remained statistically unchanged.
Real median household income rose between 2005 and 2006 in 15 states and the District of Columbia, while no states experienced a decline. Seven states that experienced increases were in the West (Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington), six were in the South (Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina and Texas) and two were in the Midwest (Kansas and South Dakota).
Keep checking back for the analysis.
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| Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 report [PDF] | ||||
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