Americans deepest in poverty lost more ground in 2016
The official poverty rate last year was close to its pre-Great Recession level, but the share of the U.S. poor in severe poverty increased.
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The official poverty rate last year was close to its pre-Great Recession level, but the share of the U.S. poor in severe poverty increased.
In the U.S., the racial and ethnic wealth gap has evolved differently for families at different income levels since the Great Recession.
The middle class has long been the country’s economic majority, but our new analysis finds that’s no longer true.
in terms of income status, the past four decades have been very good to people working in financial and natural-resources industries or as executives and managers, but not so good for sales workers or people in blue-collar manufacturing jobs.
Most of the biggest inflation-adjusted wage gains have occurred in metro areas that have directly benefited from the boom in U.S. oil and gas production
How the true value of your paycheck is affected by where you live.
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With so much new infrastructure, 62% of urban areas in China with populations over 100,000 have become less crowded — even as most gained in total population.
Half of Americans (48%) say two is the ideal number of children for a family to have, reflecting a decades-long preference for a smaller family over a larger one.
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