The states that voted for Trump also tend to be more dependent on those federal funds and have more impoverished areas ... being directed away from those high-poverty communities.

A U.S. Census report showed that 33.5% of families with school-age children living within the Erie School District's ...

He and other Democratic lawmakers insist the state start giving “opportunity grants” to these areas through the formula so that more high-poverty areas get the money they need, especially with ...

A new report reveals that the number of seniors living in poverty in New York has doubled over the past decade.

Expanding the parameters of the program without changing the formula to touch some wider-ranging accounts could face some pushback from members who represent urban areas with high poverty rates ...

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The number of census tracts that qualified as high poverty decreased from 34 to 18. From 2017 through 2021, 6.9 percent of poor residents lived in concentrated areas of poverty, ranking 22nd among ...

It's the highest percentage among Pennsylvania's 10 largest cities. The statewide rate rose from 14.6% in 2022 to 14.7% in 2023, according to the Census' Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates ...