The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation's official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million in 2023, the Census Bureau announced on Sept. 10, 2024. The data released ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I think the most interesting aspect of this report is the different directions the two measures of poverty went in 2023. On one ...