The stimulus payments provided $1,200 cash payments to most low- and middle-income Americans last year, moving 11.7 million people out of poverty, the U.S. Census said.
Another 5.5 million people were prevented from falling into poverty by the enhanced unemployment insurance aid. The poverty threshold is defined as income of less than $26,200 a year for a family of four.
The median household income decreased 2.9 percent to about $67,500 from 2019 to 2020. But during the same period, real median earnings of full-time, year-round workers increased 6.9 percent. The Census says the earnings grew because the decline in full-time, year-round workers was concentrated among those with lower earnings and low-wage industries. That decrease was highest in food service occupations, such as bartenders, waiters, waitresses and cooks.
Separately, the Census reported that in 2020 the poverty rate increased for the non-Hispanic white and Hispanic populations, to 8.2 percent and 17 percent, respectively. The Black population had the highest poverty rate of 19.5 percent, but did not experience a significant change from 2019. Congress is working to enact more programs to assist Americans still reeling from the pandemic. The Senate returned on Monday after a monthlong recess tothat includes work to keep the government open and raise the debt ceiling as well as pass a $3.5 trillion social to expand the social safety net and raise taxes on upper earners. Lawmakers also plan to give final passage to a $550 billion infrastructure bill.
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