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7.8%

The supplemental poverty rate in 2021, a decrease from the prior year that many attribute to federal food assistance, tax credits and stimulus checks. The rate in 2021 was the lowest since the Census Bureau began collecting the data in 2009.

(Reuters — Sept. 13, 2022)

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