Tag Archives: Poverty Rate

Latest forecast shows Oregon’s economy is stabilizing – OPB’s Think Out Loud

After facing pandemic-era high inflation rates and a shift in migration, Oregon’s economy is stabilizing, according to a new forecast. The forecast also notes that economic recovery post-pandemic has been inclusive across the board, as people of all backgrounds are seeing lower poverty rates and higher rates of employment. Josh Lehner is an economist with […]
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California hospital closes, leaving rural areas without care

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. The collapse of one California county’s only adult-care hospital has exposed the fragility of a system that […]
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Poverty and the Oregon Workforce – QualityInfo

The poverty rate across the U.S. reached 12.8% in 2020 and 2021, up from 12.3% in 2019. Prior to the pandemic, poverty had been falling incrementally since 2012. Oregon’s poverty rate was 12.2% in 2021, up from 11.4% in 2019. Poverty rates in Oregon have tracked pretty smoothly with the national trend over the past […]
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Oregon Progress and Poverty, 2021 Edition

This morning the Census Bureau released the 2021 American Community Survey data. This is the best data set available to researchers as it provides not just high level measures looking at income, poverty, employment, commuting, housing and the like, but also the socio-economic characteristics of these measures as well. Importantly the 2021 data is a […]
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More on Poverty and Migration | Oregon Office of Economic Analysis

Happy Friday! Two quick updates on recent posts. First, Kanhaiya Vaidya, the state demographer in our office, crunched some of the 2020 ACS microdata data for poverty rates by race and ethnicity. In a less diverse state we know the sample sizes can be small and the data noisy, even in years when Americans actually […]
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Pandemic Poverty and Progress | Oregon Office of Economic Analysis

  This morning the Census Bureau released “experimental” estimates for the 2020 American Community Survey. It’s a rather limited number of published tables available at the state level. It’s better than nothing, but this is what we get since all of us did such a terrible job filling out our surveys last year. The hope […]
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Census: Relief programs staved off hardship in COVID crash

Massive government relief passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic moved millions of Americans out of poverty last year, even as the official poverty rate increased slightly, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. The official poverty measure rose 1 percentage point in 2020, with 11.4% of Americans living in poverty, or more than 37 million people. […]
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Poverty rates dipped in Pacific Coast states in 2018, 2019

Fewer than 11% of residents of California, Washington and Oregon lived below the poverty line in 2018 and 2019. It appeared to have fallen in Oregon as well, from 11% in the earlier period to 8.9% in 2018 and 2019, but the change was within the survey’s margin of error. Source: Poverty rates dipped in […]
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Coronavirus Relief Helping to Keep Down Poverty Rate—For Now, Research Finds  

A new report says the CARES Act has offered an important boost to low-income families. But aid will dry up as the year goes on. Cash payments and the expanded unemployment benefits many Americans qualify for under the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed this spring will help to prevent a sharp rise in poverty […]
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A Gloomy Prediction on How Much Poverty Could Rise

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story directly from the source, state employees can access this New York Times story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: library.help@state.or.us or 503-378-8800.