{"id":2329,"date":"2011-11-29T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T03:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2011-11-30T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:15:09","slug":"idahos-poverty-rate-higher-than-the-national-average-neighboring-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/29\/idahos-poverty-rate-higher-than-the-national-average-neighboring-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho’s Poverty Rate Higher Than the National Average, Neighboring States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Idaho’s poverty<\/a> rate has increased 1.4 percent from 2009 to 2010.\u00a0 The U.S. Census Bureau released new poverty and income estimates for 2010 today.\u00a0 The data<\/a> includes Idaho’s state poverty and income estimates, plus, rates on a county-by-county level and for each school district.<\/p>\n

The annual estimates are based on a combination of data from the American Community Survey, federal tax information, records on food assistance participation, Census statistics and annual population estimates.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Census Bureau<\/p>

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In 2009, the percentage of Idahoans living in poverty<\/a> was 14.4.\u00a0 The 2010 estimate shows 15.8 percent of Idahoans are in poverty.\u00a0 The counties with the highest rates include Lemhi, Owyhee and Madison Counties.\u00a0 The percent of people living in poverty has steadily increased since 2008, the official start of the latest recession.\u00a0 That same measure of poverty back in 2007, before the recession, was 12.1 percent.<\/p>\n

State labor economist Janell Hyer says the data speaks for itself. Poverty is going up statewide, and in most Idaho counties.\u00a0 “I don\u2019t know that there is anything alarming about it,” Hyer says, “it just tells us that we are probably not much different than the nation.”\u00a0 The number of people living in poverty is slightly higher in Idaho than the national average, which is 15.3 percent.<\/p>\n

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The Census data<\/a> show the states with the highest number of people living in poverty are largely in the South.\u00a0 Mississippi has the highest rate at 22.4 percent. New Mexico is at 19.8 percent and Kentucky is at 18.9 percent.\u00a0 The states with the smallest number of people living in poverty are concentrated around the East Coast.\u00a0 New Hampshire is the lowest at 8.6 percent, Maryland at 9.9 percent and Connecticut at 10.1 percent.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Census Bureau<\/p>

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As for income?\u00a0 It’s also declining.\u00a0 The median household income in Idaho in 2010 was $43,259.\u00a0 In 2007 it was $46,136.\u00a0 The national average is $50,046.<\/p>\n

These statistics are used as one of the criteria to allocate federal funds to local school districts.\u00a0 In addition, state and local programs use these statistics for distributing funds and managing school programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Idaho’s poverty rate has increased 1.4 percent from 2009 to 2010.\u00a0 The U.S. Census Bureau released new poverty and income estimates for 2010 today.\u00a0 The data includes Idaho’s state poverty and income estimates, plus, rates on a county-by-county level and for each school district. The annual estimates are based on a combination of data from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[103,46,108],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329"}],"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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}