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Cleveland is again the second poorest city, but there is some good news on race and gender
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Cleveland is again the second poorest city, but there is some good news on race and gender

Community Solutions’ early analysis of the 2022 data released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week was mixed. Most of the good news came on Tuesday with the release of the Current Population Survey. This source includes statistics on poverty for states and the country as a whole, including both the Official Poverty Measure (OPM)...

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Twenty-five Years Later, U.S. Policy Shifts on Aid to Poor Families with Children

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden and his Congressional allies included a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act that, in effect, reversed 25 years of policy created by welfare reform legislation passed – in August, 1996.  New York Times reporter Jason DeParle described it as a “break with a quarter century of policy.”[1] It...