The share of children in poverty fell by nearly half in 2021, thanks mainly to a one-year enhancement of the enhanced child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Some 5.2% of ...

New numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau show Philadelphia joined other large U.S. cities in shedding residents between 2020 and 2021. Philadelphia still ranks as the sixth most populous city as many ...

The Magic City keeps losing people. Birmingham city lost more than 1% of its population between July 1, 2020 and July 1, 2021, according to new estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau today. That ...

Sept 13 (Reuters) - A key measure of how many Americans lived in poverty in 2021 fell to a record low thanks in large part to federal government assistance measures aimed at supporting households ...

A measure that accounts for all federal subsidies also showed a reduction of almost half in the number of children below the poverty level. By Lydia DePillis and Jason DeParle A second year of ...

The average American income was essentially flat last year at $70,784, the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. The inflation-adjusted median U.S. household income fell 0.6% from the 2020 estimate of ...

The Rocket City keeps booming. The Huntsville metro area, the only large metro in Alabama to see rapid growth last year, passed the 500,000 mark in 2021. The Huntsville metro area, which includes ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - New figures from the U.S. Census show people leaving Minnesota's largest cities in the first year of the pandemic. The census estimates show both Minneapolis and St. Paul losing ...

Rachel Ong ViforJ is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project FT200100422). She also receives funding from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. On the ...