U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years

January 26th, 2021

Via: Bloomberg:

The end of 2020 brought the sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s, according to a study released Monday.

Economists Bruce Meyer, from the University of Chicago, and James Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame found that the poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points during the latter half of 2020 as the U.S. continued to suffer the economic impacts from Covid-19.

That percentage-point rise is nearly double the largest annual increase in poverty since the 1960s. This means an additional 8 million people nationwide are now considered poor. Moreover, the poverty rate for Black Americans is estimated to have jumped by 5.4 percentage points, or by 2.4 million individuals.

One Response to “U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years”

  1. quintanus says:

    If they could recover some of this, they could target people in poverty. I wonder where this money is going? https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/12/30/unemployment-fraud-how-international-scammers-took-36-b-us/3960263001/

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