The U.S. poverty rate edged down to the lowest on record in 2025, while median household income hit a record high, the Census Bureau said on Tuesday. There were 34.5 million people in poverty in 2025, the agency said.
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You see inflation is not a bad thing after all.
Most likely, the poverty line just hasn't kept up with inflation.
If it's a real effect though, poor people spend much more of their budgets than rich people, so richer poor people puts more upward pressure on prices than richer rich people does.
Yeah, it works great for the numbers when your grown up kids all move back home and your parents move in as well because no body can afford to live anywhere else. Just fucking wonderful.