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    Poverty Declined In 2020, The Result Of Government Aid, Census Bureau Reports

    Relief payments moved 11.7 million people from poverty in 2020, according to new Census Bureau data.
    by Laurel Wamsley Sep 14, 2021 1 minute
    People shop in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in May. Poverty declined in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure.

    Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment just released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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