This is the 2011 version of the federal poverty measure, published annually by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), through a variety of outreach efforts throughout the United States, works to help Americans break free from poverty. The CCHD website includes a wealth of information on the state of poverty tour of poverty. (poverty tour in English | poverty tour in Spanish/en español).

Hunger Task Force serves more than 48,000 meals per month at our soup kitchens; helps more than 29,000 people receive emergency food at our pantries each month, and distributes nearly 9,000 Stockboxes a month to senior citizens in Milwaukee County. How do so many people need help? Put yourself in their shoes and find out! Play the online game SPENT to see what it is like to make hard, life-changing choices just to survive and feed your family. See if you can make it through the month!

This report, issued in September 2011 by the U.S. Census Bureau, presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2011 and earlier Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS ASEC) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) identifies and promotes strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families. It conducts and synthesizes relevant research to meet the needs of key audiences that work on issues affecting low-income families. NCCP also provides an extensive list of publications as well as demographic, state, and local information on child poverty in the U.S.

The mission of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) is to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness. To achieve its mission, NLCHP pursues three main strategies: impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education. Visit NLCHP's website for valuable resources in the areas of housing, income, children and youth, civil rights, and domestic violence.

This March 2009 brief by Dr. David C. Berliner of Arizona State University and supported by The Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice explores the role poverty plays in the achievement gap between lower income and middle income students and between racial and ethnic groups; the report concludes that poverty is, in fact, the major cause of the achievement gap.

Rural Children At A Glance

This study by the USDA's Economic Research Service provides compelling facts about rural child poverty.

Two Generations in Poverty: Status and Trends among Parents and Children in the United States, 2000-2010

This November 2011 brief from Child Trends examines recent poverty data and trends over the past decade through a two-generation lens. The brief draws on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, and presents a sharpened two-generation lens on the poverty and low-income status of children and families in 2010, and on trends in poverty and low-income status among children and families during the first decade of the 21^st century. In addition, it presents data on differences in poverty and low-income status across race and ethnic origin, age, family structure, gender, education, full-time employment status, and geography.

Two Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005

This December 2006 report from The Brookings Institution provides an analysis of poverty in cities and suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas based on data from the 2005 American Community Survey and Census 2000.
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This report, published by the Urban Institute in August 2006, examines trends in child poverty in the United States over the last 10 years and analyzes the factors contributing to the trends.
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This portion of the U.S. Census Bureau website provides information about poverty in the United States, including poverty thresholds, methods for measuring poverty, and historical tables.