Social Welfare Policy
A guide to social welfare policy resources.
Featured Resources
- The Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2020NEW RELEASE- September 14, 2021
- Poverty Among Americans Aged 65 and OlderCongressional Research Service, July 1, 2019
- A Profile of the Working Poor, 2017Bureau of Labor Statistics, April, 2019
- Poverty in the United States in 2017: In BriefCongressional Research Service, November 7, 2018
- How the Geography of U.S. Poverty has Shifted since 1960Pew Research Center, September 10, 2015
- Young Children in Deep PovertyJanuary, 2016. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University
Poverty-Statistics and Data
- Poverty-U. S. Census BureauThis page is a gateway to poverty data collected by the Census Bureau, reports, facts about how poverty is measured by the Census Bureau, poverty measurement studies, and microdata files that can be used to create customized tabulations.
- Poverty Guidelines, Research and MeasurementThere are two slightly different versions of the federal poverty measure. Poverty thresholds are updated each year by the Census Bureau. Poverty guidelines are the other version of the federal poverty measure and are issued each year in the Federal Register by the Department of Health and Human Services. See this site for more explanation.
- National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)-Columbia UniversityState profiles, data tools and more.
- Poverty & Equity Data-World BankRegional and country dashboards displaying latest data and trends in poverty and inequality.