WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following report (No. P60-280) entitled "Poverty in the U.S. - 2022:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * CHANGES IN SPM RATES BETWEEN 2021 AND 2022 In 2022, the overall SPM rate was 12.4 percent. This was 4.6 percentage points higher than the 2021 SPM rate of 7.8 percent, and 0.6 percentage points higher than 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic (Table B-2). This was the first significant increase in the SPM rate since  more