Musings on Macroeconomics

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Poverty, Health Insurance, and Median Household Income

In the article

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/politics/census-bureau-poverty-rate-uninsured.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


the author notes that the number of people without health insurance has declined in the last year, but that there was no significant change in median household income or the poverty rate.

Neil Irwin comments on this in the blog post at

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/upshot/why-americans-still-think-the-economy-is-terrible.html

He notes that median income has been falling for several years.

In

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-16/the-richest-americans-are-winning-the-economy-recovery


the authors note that only the richest have fully recovered from the Great Recession
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