Use U.S. Census Bureau poverty data to explore more than a dozen topics that measure the health of the economy at the state and national levels. The U.S. Census Bureau could not provide its ...

A map shows the places with the highest concentration of U.S. households without access to running water. Plumbing poverty is closely connected to other forms of poverty, such as inadequate housing.

Some states are having difficulty shaking off high poverty rates, a new study suggests. Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by ...

The map shows that a large proportion of Southern and Western states have a higher percentage of child poverty at 14 percent or more, and includes states that have high levels of wealth like Texas ...