Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure, Urban Institute researchers now project an annual poverty rate of 7.7 percent for 2021—well below the 13.9 percent estimated for 2018.
The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) didn’t cover the cost of a low-income meal in 96 percent of US counties in 2020. What’s the story where you live?
Learn how local leaders and service providers in two communities adapted their homelessness services when COVID-19 hit—and developed better approaches to tackling homelessness in the long term.
What will it take to remedy centuries of discrimination and empower communities? Tune in today at 3:30 p.m. (EDT) as DC-area chief equity officers discuss accomplishments, challenges, and visions for the future.
Although the public charge rule has ended, chilling effects remain. New research offers four lessons for counteracting lingering fears and ensuring immigrant families’ needs are met.
