Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Examining the New Census Bureau Data on Poverty, Income, and Health Coverage

The child poverty rate climbed from 17.4 percent in 2006 to 18.0 percent in 2007....The number of children in poverty grew by 500,000 in 2007 and by 1.6 million over the 2001-2007 period." Read more...

Statement by
Robert Greenstein

Podcast:
Listen to the Center's press briefing with the Economic Policy Institute on the data.

Nicholas Johnson

For the seventh consecutive year, the Center has received a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent evaluator of charities."

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You often hear that the poor and working people don't have a voice in Washington...As it turns out, this bit of conventional wisdom is wrong for one reason: Bob Greenstein and his crew at the Center..."

Washington Post Columnist Steven Pearlstein's profile of the Center

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