A Just and Sustainable Recovery
These charts represent the percentage of people in poverty during the past 12 months, from 1999 to 2008.
This map tracks annual average unemployment rates nationally and for individual states.
The median divides the income distribution into two equal parts: one-half falling below the median and one-half rising above the median.
Three maps representing the share of children in poverty, extreme poverty (50 percent or less of poverty), and low income (less than 200 percent of poverty).
This map presents total number of TANF recipients (adults and children) and percentage of state population.
This chart illustrates what women earn as a percentage of what men earn.
A household is asset poor if it has insufficient savings to get by at the federal poverty line for three months in the absence of income.
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