Maps from AADO Presentation

As part of my presentation to the Association of Arkansas Development Organizations (AADO) on August 26, I presented a series of maps showing demographic and economic variables for Arkansas’ 75 counties.  Some general observations about the maps are discussed in...

A Note on Poverty in 2011

This morning, the Census Bureau released new statistics on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011.  The headline of the report was that the official U.S. poverty rate was 15.0% in 2011, little changed from the previous year. The...

Income and Poverty in 2010

U.S. incomes decline and poverty rises – but Arkansas fares better than most other states Yesterday’s report from the Census Bureau showed that real household median income in the U.S. declined by 2.3% in 2010, and the share of the population below the...

New Poverty Measures to be Developed

The Commerce Department yesterday outlined plans for a new methodology for measuring the poverty rate [“Census Bureau to Develop Supplemental Poverty Measure”].  The new measure will not replace the existing poverty-rate calculation, but serve as a...

The Poverty Rate and the Cost of Living

When the latest data on state-level poverty rates was released last week (September 10), I was asked to comment for a story in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.  I pointed out that poverty rates are not adjusted for differences in the cost of living. My point was the...
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