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Q | How many people are in poverty in the United States? |
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A | The Census Bureau is the federal agency that prepares statistics on the number of people in poverty in the United States. More >> |
Q | What are poverty thresholds? |
A | Poverty thresholds are used for calculating all official poverty population statistics — for instance, figures on the number of Americans in poverty each year. They are updated each year by the Census Bureau. More >> |