WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following report (No. ACSBR-015) by Douglas Conway and Breauna Branch entitled "Health Insurance Coverage Status and Type by Geography: 2021 and 2022." Here are excerpts: * * * INTRODUCTION Demographic shifts as well as economic and government policy changes can affect people's access to health coverage. For example, between 2021 and 2022, the labor market continued to improve, which may have affected private coverage in the   more

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