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
Food insecurity appears to have grown in 2020 despite the decline in poverty.Spencer Platt/Getty Images
CC BY-NDThe 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...