Census Releases Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Numbers

Income, Poverty, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 [1]

• The poverty rate declined from 12.6% in 2005 to 12.3% in 2006. The number of people living in poverty has remained constant at 36.5 million
• Household median income in 2006 increased 0.7% to $48,200 from $47,845 in 2005
• The number and percent of those without health insurance increased to 47.0 million, or 15.8% from 44.8 million, or 15.3%

Slides from the Census's presentation can be found here [2], and speaker's remarks from the presentation can be found here [3]