Long-Term Trends in Poverty and the Role of Social Policies
This chartbook presents the first estimates of state-level trends in poverty using a historical version of the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). The SPM provides a more accurate measure of poverty than the Official Poverty Measure (OPM), which has been in use since the 1960s.
The chartbook includes a two-page fact sheet for each state that documents historical trends in poverty overall, as well as for children, working-aged adults, and the elderly. Each fact sheet also displays the effect of taxes and transfers on the poverty rate for these groups.
Download State Fact Sheets
- Alabama Factsheet | Data
- Alaska Factsheet | Data
- Arizona Factsheet | Data
- Arkansas Factsheet | Data
- California Factsheet | Data
- Colorado Factsheet | Data
- Connecticut Factsheet | Data
- Delaware Factsheet | Data
- Florida Factsheet | Data
- Georgia Factsheet | Data
- Hawaii Factsheet | Data
- Idaho Factsheet | Data
- Illinois Factsheet | Data
- Indiana Factsheet | Data
- Iowa Factsheet | Data
- Kansas Factsheet | Data
- Kentucky Factsheet | Data
- Louisiana Factsheet | Data
- Maine Factsheet | Data
- Maryland Factsheet | Data
- Massachusetts Factsheet | Data
- Michigan Factsheet | Data
- Minnesota Factsheet | Data
- Mississippi Factsheet | Data
- Missouri Factsheet | Data
- Montana Factsheet | Data
- Nebraska Factsheet | Data
- Nevada Factsheet | Data
- New Hampshire Factsheet | Data
- New Jersey Factsheet | Data
- New Mexico Factsheet | Data
- New York Factsheet | Data
- North Carolina Factsheet | Data
- North Dakota Factsheet | Data
- Ohio Factsheet | Data
- Oklahoma Factsheet | Data
- Oregon Factsheet | Data
- Pennsylvania Factsheet | Data
- Rhode Island Factsheet | Data
- South Carolina Factsheet | Data
- South Dakota Factsheet | Data
- Tennessee Factsheet | Data
- Texas Factsheet | Data
- Utah Factsheet | Data
- Vermont Factsheet | Data
- Virginia Factsheet | Data
- Washington Factsheet | Data
- West Virginia Factsheet | Data
- Wisconsin Factsheet | Data
- Wyoming Factsheet | Data
Access Historical Supplemental Poverty Measurement Data
The state-level poverty estimates were calculated using the CPSP's historical SPM data set. This data set is publicly available.