The interesting thing in the data in this blog is the data shows a slow tapering of child poverty with a noticeable decline in single mother and child poverty after the US 1996 Federal welfare reforms which introduced lifetime time limits on eligibility.
The demographics of the United States of poverty show both that poverty is much worse than the numbers indicate and that poverty can be eliminated.
As David Johnson, chief of the Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division at the U.S. Census Bureau, explains (in a post by Phil Izzo), the poverty rate of young people is only as low as it is because they’ve been forced to move back in with their parents.
the share of people age 25-34 living with their parents jumped to 13.4% in 2010 from 12.7% in 2008. Families sticking together has likely held down the poverty rate, noted Johnson.
The poverty rate for adults age 25-34 living with their parents was 8.5%, but in that case they are considered part of a household. If their status was determined solely by their own income, 43% were below the poverty threshold for a single person.
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