Resources in Social Work: Poverty

New Release! September 16, 2015

Pew Research Center, September 10, 2015

Bureau of Labor Statistics, July 2015

Congressional Research Service, September 30, 2015

National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University

January, 2016. National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University

This 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.

There 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.

State profiles, data tools and more.

Regional and country dashboards displaying latest data and trends in poverty and inequality.

A collection included in the Social Science Electronic Data Library