SOC W 501 Poverty & Inequality
Living Wage and Poverty Calculators
- Living Wage CalculatorThis calculator shows living income wages at the county level for all 50 states.
Statistical Sources
- American Fact FinderTool put out by the Census Bureau to retrieve recent data on the people and economy of the U.S.
- Bureau of the Census - Income and PovertyPortal to data and research on poverty in the US. This includes the 2016 Poverty Report as well as Poverty Data Tools, mapping, etc.
- Income and Poverty in the United States: 2016Current Population Reports, US Census Bureau
- Millenium Development Goals Report: 2015United Nations
Progress towards the eight Millennium Development
Goals is measured through 21 targets and 60 official indicators. This report presents an accounting to date of how far the world has come in meeting the goals using data available as of June 2015. - Poverty in the United States in 2016: In BriefJoseph Dalaker, Congressional Research Service