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Safety net policies are helping reduce the number of Americans below the poverty line – but that's not the whole story

  • Written by Elena Delavega, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Memphis
Safety net policies are helping reduce the number of Americans below the poverty line – but that's not the whole storyFood insecurity appears to have grown in 2020 despite the decline in poverty.Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesSafety net policies are helping reduce the number of Americans below the poverty line – but that's not the whole storyCC BY-ND

The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020, according to the Urban Institute, a think tank that closely tracks this rate with a widely used model. There were 29.3 million Americans living below the...

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