{"id":1584,"date":"2011-11-07T13:40:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2011-11-08T12:21:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:21:02","slug":"poverty-rises-in-the-west-using-new-census-bureau-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/07\/poverty-rises-in-the-west-using-new-census-bureau-calculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty Rises in the West Using New Census Bureau Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1591\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/07\/poverty-rises-in-the-west-using-new-census-bureau-calculation\/us-poverty-rate-rises-to-highest-since-1983\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1591\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1591\" title=\"US Poverty Rate Rises To Highest Since 1983\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-7-Supplemental-Poverty-Measure1-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-7-Supplemental-Poverty-Measure1-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-7-Supplemental-Poverty-Measure1-220x154.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/11-7-Supplemental-Poverty-Measure1.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kevork Djansezian \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In downtown Los Angeles this fall, a man waited for a soup kitchen meal.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Census Bureau released a new and expanded measure of domestic poverty today.\u00a0 Unlike the official poverty line, which is calculated based on food costs, the Census Bureau&#8217;s Supplemental Poverty Measure takes into account things like geographic differences in the cost of living and the assistance received through public benefits like food stamps.<\/p>\n<p>We were curious to see whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2011pubs\/p60-241.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s report<\/a> would reveal any information about regional poverty, and there is an interesting nugget.\u00a0 Under the new calculation<del><\/del>, the number of people living in poverty in the West increased by four percent.\u00a0 That&#8217;s compared to a gain of less than two percent in the Northeast, and slight reductions in the estimated number of people living in poverty in the Midwest and South.<\/p>\n<p>Census Bureau officials chalk up the gain to high housing costs in the western region.\u00a0 The agency has not released state-by-state calculations as part of this report, but says state-level tables will be included next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Census Bureau released a new and expanded measure of domestic poverty today.\u00a0 Unlike the official poverty line, which is calculated based on food costs, the Census Bureau&#8217;s Supplemental Poverty Measure takes into account things like geographic differences in the cost of living and the assistance received through public benefits like food stamps. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[103,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}