On Inauguration Day, we provide a look at various metrics on the state of the country at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
What President Trump Inherits, Part 2
Issues: poverty
Biden’s Numbers, 2024 Pre-Election Update
Our latest quarterly report on various statistical indicators comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
Trump’s Misleading Poverty Rate Comparison
The official U.S. poverty rate in 2022 “remained stable compared to 2021,” but an alternative method of measuring poverty “increased significantly, reflecting changes in economic well-being following the end of many pandemic-era programs,” the Census Bureau says in a new report.
Biden’s Numbers, October 2022 Update
Various measures of what has happened in the country since the president’s inauguration.
Trump’s Final Numbers
Statistical indicators of President Trump’s four years in office.
Trump’s Numbers, Preelection Update
What the statistics tell us about the president’s time in office.
Trump’s Numbers April 2020 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed during Trump’s time in office.
Trump’s Numbers January 2020 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed during Trump’s first three years.
Trump’s Numbers October 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Trump Wrong About Poverty ‘Record’
The U.S. Census Bureau officially estimates that close to 1 million fewer people were in poverty in 2017 compared with 2016. President Donald Trump called the decline “a record,” but it’s not.