@govWalker: Study: Wisconsin poverty rate increases

Study: Wisconsin poverty rate increases


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The Wisconsin Gazette Jun 8, 2018 Updated 15 min ago 0







WPM county-/multicounty-level poverty rates vary in relation to the overall state rate of 10.8 percent in 2016.


The 10th annual Wisconsin Poverty Report released June 8 found the rate increased to 10.8 percent in 2016, compared to 9.7 percent in 2015.

The annual study was led by Timothy Smeeding, a professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and affiliate and former director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in collaboration with IRP programmer analyst Katherine Thornton.

They found poverty rates rose for children and elders as well using a tool called the Wisconsin Poverty Measure.
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WPM Child poverty increased by 2 percentage points to 12 percent, .............................

WPM elderly poverty rose from 7.8 to 9 percent between 2015 and 2016........................
As explained in the report, the WPM child poverty rate is almost 5 percentage points lower than the official child poverty rate because the WPM counts as income family resources from tax credits and noncash benefits — such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP food assistance, the child tax credit and earned income tax credit.