R48943 — Income and Poverty by State and Congressional District
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- Ben Leubsdorf · Joseph Dalaker
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Summary
Members of Congress may assess the economic well-being of households in the geographic areas they represent: states and congressional districts. This report describes two widely used statistical measures: median household income (a single number that represents the middle of the income distribution) and the poverty rate (the percentage of the population that lives in poverty, with income below a dollar threshold that represents needs for a low level of material well-being). It also provides current estimates for states and U.S. House districts based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), a large-scale survey of U.S. households.
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