CNN

Median income hit record high in 2019 before the pandemic, Census says

Median US household income was $68,700 in 2019, the highest since 1967, the first year records were kept, according to inflation-adjusted data released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday. That’s up 6.8% ...
Forbes

Report Shows Big Declines In Poverty In 2019, But California Leads The Nation – In Poverty – With Austin, Texas Trying Hard To Catch Up

The Census Bureau’s annual reports on poverty in America were released on Sept. 15. The reports provide three salient observations. First, that the largest reductions in poverty in the past 10 years ...
The New York Times

U.S. Poverty Hit a Record Low Before the Pandemic Recession

The share of Americans in poverty in 2019 declined and median incomes were the highest on record, a Census Bureau report showed. By Jeanna Smialek Sarah Kliff and Alan Rappeport WASHINGTON — A ...
Orange County Register

6 million Californians living in poverty, down 704,000 in a year

California leads the nation in poverty among its residents, but it’s also seen the biggest drop in its poor, according to new Census Bureau data released Tuesday. An average 6 million Californians had ...