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State-Level Data Show Recovery Act Protecting Millions From Poverty
December 17, 2009
While the recession is expected to drive states’ poverty rates up for 2009, new analysis based on Census data shows that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is keeping large numbers of Americans out of poverty in states across the country. In addition to boosting economic activity and preserving or creating jobs, the recovery act is … -
Poverty Rose, Median Income Declined, and Job-Based Health Insurance Continued to Weaken in 2008
September 10, 2009
Poverty increased, median household income fell, and the percentage of Americans with employer-based health coverage continued to decline in 2008, according to Census data for 2008 issued today. The figures reflect the initial effects of the recession. Median household income declined 3.6 percent in 2008 after adjusting for … -
Stimulus Keeping 6 Million Americans Out of Poverty in 2009, Estimates Show
September 9, 2009
Although meant chiefly to help the broad economy, the stimulus plan Congress enacted earlier this year (the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act of 2009, or ARRA) had the important secondary effect of significantly ameliorating the recession’s impact on poverty. This analysis, which comes one day before the Census Bureau will release updated poverty figures … -
Safety Net Effective at Fighting Poverty But Has Weakened for the Very Poorest
July 6, 2009
As mounting job losses threaten to push more Americans into poverty and make poor families still poorer, a new examination of the public benefits system finds that it is more effective in reducing poverty than previously known but has become less effective over the past decade in protecting Americans from deep poverty. … -
Income Gaps Hit Record Levels In 2006, New Data Show
April 17, 2009
New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that in 2006, the top 1 percent of households had a larger share of the nation’s after-tax income, and the middle and bottom fifths of households had smaller shares, than in any year since 1979, the first year the CBO data cover. As a result, the gaps in after-tax incomes between … -
Tax Aid in Recovery Package Would Reach Large Numbers of Workers in Every State
Updated February 26, 2009
Tax credits in the economic recovery package provide tax relief to most workers. The centerpiece of the tax relief is a new Making Work Pay Credit of up to $400 per worker. The credit phases in at the same rate as Social Security taxes and is available to all workers (except those claimed as another taxpayer's dependent) earning up to $95,000 and … -
Economic Recovery Package Would Give 3.8 Million Low- and Moderate-Income Students — Thousands in Every State —Access to Higher-Education Tax Credit
Revised February 26, 2009
The “Hope Credit,” which provides a tax subsidy for college tuition costs, was established in 1997. Its goal, in part, was to enable students who could not otherwise afford to attend college to do so. Yet until now, 3.8 million prospective college students — more than a fifth of all high-school-age children nationwide … -
Recovery Agreement Temporarily Expands Child Tax Credit for Large Numbers of Children in Every State
February 12, 2009
The economic recovery plan that a congressional conference committee has approved will expand the Child Tax Credit for 13 million children in low-income working families. Under the agreement, the child credit will reach 2.9 million new children and will provide another 10 million children with a larger credit than they would have received … -
Tax Credit Provisions in House and Senate Recovery Packages Would Lessen Growth in Poverty
January 26, 2009
While reviving the economy is the overriding goal of the economic recovery package, particular elements of the package are likely to have other important benefits as well. One is to counter what otherwise will be a major spike in child poverty. The House recovery plan contains a number of poverty-reducing provisions, three of which — a new “Making Work …
