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New poverty limits for applying for government aid in 2025, such as SNAP
In 2025, the U.S. government has updated the poverty thresholds, which are crucial for determining eligibility for various ...
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Few Rewards
About 9.1 percent of people in working families lives in poverty and 26.3 percent lives in or near poverty. A fulltime worker supporting a family of two on the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 ...
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The City With the Highest Poverty Rate in Every State
With the exception of a slight uptick during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. poverty rate has been trending downwards for over a decade. The Department of Health and Human Services has set the poverty ...
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Ten Years Without a Raise
Click “More maps” to see the impact on different demographic groups. Data by state: While the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009, many states and cities have increased the minimum ...
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Paper The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition: Food Deserts and Food Choices across the United States
We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and ...