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  1. The official poverty rate in 2019 was 10.5 percent, down 1.3 percentage points from 11.8 percent in 2018. This is the fifth consecutive annual decline in poverty. Since 2014, the poverty rate has fallen 4.3 percentage points, from 14.8 percent to 10.5 percent (Figure 7 and Table B-5).

  2. This brief uses the 2019 and 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates to analyze poverty rates for calendar year 2021, as well as the changes in poverty from calendar year 2019 for the nation, states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the most populous metropolitan areas.1,

  3. From 2018 to 2019, the percentage of people with an income-to-poverty ratio below 125 percent declined in more than two-thirds of states (35 states and the District of Columbia). No state saw an increase in the propor-tion of individuals with income below 125 percent of poverty in 2019.

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  4. Apr 13, 2021 · Compared with the official measure, estimated poverty rates under the SPM in 2019 were lower for children (12.5%, compared with 14.4%) and higher for working-age adults (11.2%, compared with 9.4%) and the 65-and-older population (12.8%, compared with 8.9%).

  5. Dec 27, 2022 · In an analysis of the 2019 estimates that attempted to correct for response bias, the U.S. poverty rate was estimated to have been 11.1% (tying the previous low of 11.1% in 1973), higher than the official 2019 estimate of 10.5%.

  6. Feb 10, 2022 · In 2020, approximately 37.2 million people had incomes below the official definition of poverty in the United States, which was an increase from 34.0 million people in 2019. The poverty rate rose to 11.4% from 10.5%.

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  8. The poverty guidelines. The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure. They are updated each year by the Census Bureau. The thresholds are used mainly for statistical purposes — for instance, preparing estimates of the number of Americans in poverty each year.

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