Poverty in Your State Sources
Education
America's Health Rankings Analysis of U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, United Health Foundation, AmericasHealthRankings.org, accessed 2022.
https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/Graduation_A/state/AZ
Melanie Hanson, “Student Loan Debt by Income Level,” Education Data Initiative, July 21, 2022. https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-by-income-level
Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Table 219.46, “Public
High School 4-Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR), by Selected Student Characteristics and State: 2010-11 Through 2018-19,” 2020.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_219.46.asp
Midwestern Higher Education Compact, “High School Completion by Income,” 2017-2019, accessed 2022.
https://www.mhec.org/dashboard/high-school-completion-income
U.S. Census Bureau, “American Community Survey 2019 5-Year Estimates,” Table S1401.
Finance
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, “2021 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households,” Custom Data Table Tool, October 2022.
https://household-survey.fdic.gov/custom-data
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED, “Release Tables: Real Median Household Income by State, Annual,” 2021.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?eid=259515&rid=249
Juliana Kaplan and Madison Hoff, “The $7.25 Federal Minimum Wage Just Turned 13 Years Old. This Map Shows the Last Time States Raised Their Wages,” Insider, July 25, 2022
https://www.businessinsider.com/map-the-last-time-each-state-raised-its-minimum-wage-2021-2
U.S. Census Bureau, “Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, All Ages in Poverty,” 2020.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, “County-level Data Sets: Percent of Total Population in Poverty,” Children Ages 0-17 in Poverty (2020), accessed 2022.
https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17826
U.S. Department of Labor, “Consolidated Minimum Wage Table,” October 1, 2022.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/mw-consolidated
Wendy Sawyer, “How Much Do Incarcerated People Earn in Each State?” Prison Policy Initiative, April 10, 2017.
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2017/04/10/wages/
Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevent, “Drug Overdose Mortality by State,” 2020.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mortality/drug_poisoning.htm
Kaiser Family Foundation, “Health Insurance Coverage of the Total Population,” 2019.
Catlin Nchako and Lexin Cai, “A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 16, 2020.
Housing
Sonya Acosta and Erik Gartland, “Families Wait Years for Housing Vouchers Due to Inadequate Funding: Expanding Program Would Reduce Hardship, Improve Equity,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 22, 2021.
Ashley Gromis, Ian Fellows, James Hendrickson, Lavar Edmonds, Lillian Leung, Adam Porton, and Matthew Desmond. “Estimating Eviction Prevalence across the United States,” Princeton University Eviction Lab, deposited May 13, 2022. https://data-downloads.evictionlab.org/#estimating-eviction-prevalance-across-us/
National Center for Homeless Education, Student Homelessness in America: School Years 2017-18 to 2019-20 (Browns Summit, N.C.: National Center for Homeless Education, 2021), 4-5. https://nche.ed.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Student-Homelessness-in-America-2021.pdf
U.S. Census Bureau, “American Community Survey 2019 5-Year Estimates,” Table DP04.
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=DP04&g=0100000US%240400000&tid=ACSDP5Y2019.DP04
Policies
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “State Fact Sheets: How States Spend Funds Under the TANF Block Grant,” January 12, 2022.
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ABOUT MATTHEW DESMOND
Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016), which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond’s research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50, as one of “fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.”
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