Alaska did not have the highest outright ... [+] poverty rate. But it did experience a shocking increase in poverty among people aged 65 and older from 2012 to 2022. Poverty in the United States ...

The state of Florida has one of the smallest wealth gaps by race and ethnicity, according to a WalletHub report that measured the financial inequality among racial groups across the country. But the ...

This metric relies on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which determines poverty rates by calculating the share of people in a state whose family or individual income falls below poverty thresholds.

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline.