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Wednesday 14 september 2022
Census: Inequality last year grew, but child poverty dropped

By MIKE SCHNEIDER time period in the survey
Associated Press also saw a 4.7% increase in
Income inequality in the consumer prices, the larg-
U.S. increased last year for est annual increase in the
the first time in more than cost-of-living adjustment
a decade, but childhood since 1990.
poverty was cut almost in The expansion of the Child
half due to expansion of Tax Credit helped reduce
the federal government's childhood poverty, as
child tax credit and stimu- measured by the bureau's
lus payments made in re- Supplemental Poverty
sponse to the COVID-19 Measure, from 9.7% in 2020
pandemic, according to to 5.2% last year. It is the
new survey results released lowest since the new mea-
Tuesday by the U.S. Census sure was implemented in
Bureau. 2009. "The new data show
The income inequality index the significant impact the
increased 1.2% from 2020 to expansion of anti-poverty
2021, the first time the mea- programs during the CO-
surement known as the Gini VID-19 pandemic had on
Index has increased since reducing child poverty,"
2011, according to a report the Census Bureau said in
on Current Population Sur- a report. The pandemic-re-
vey results. Kymme Williams-Davis, right, takes orders at the Bushwick Grind Café she owns, Thursday Sept. 8, lated stimulus also helped
Declines in household in- 2022, in New York. the overall population.
come among the poorest Associated Press The Census Bureau calcu-
U.S. residents appears to lates poverty in two ways
have driven the widening For the most part, there was keep pace with rising infla- Black households had me- — the "official" poverty
of the income inequality little year-to-year change in tion in 2021, and many of dian income of $48,297. rate and the Supplemen-
gap. Households in the 90th median household income the "nonfamily" households Median incomes were tal Poverty Measure, which
percentile of the income based on demographic were headed by women highest in the West at incorporates government
distribution, the richest, had traits like race or ethnic whose income lagged $79,430 and the Northeast programs designed to help
income that was 13.5 times background. those headed by men. at $77,472, followed by the low-income families. The of-
higher than households in However, people in house- Households headed by Midwest $71,129 and the ficial poverty rate last year
the 10th percentile, the holds headed by someone people with at least a col- South at $63,368. was 11.6%, or 37.9 million
poorest. That was a 4.9% in- age 65 or older, those with lege degree saw bumps in The time period in the latest people, and it wasn't statis-
crease from 2020. only some college educa- overall income last year. Current Population Survey tically different from what
"It is sensitive to extremes at tion and households where Broken down by race and covered the third round of it was in 2020. The Supple-
either end," said Liana Fox, family members didn't live ethnic background, Asian pandemic-related stimulus mental Poverty Measure
a Census Bureau official. together saw dips in their households in 2021 had the payments and expansions last year was 7.8%, a drop
"This suggests that the de- income from 2020 to 2021. highest median income at to the Child Tax Credit, of 1.4 percentage points
cline in real income at the Among the reasons was $101,418, followed by non- Earned Income Tax Credit from 2020 and the lowest in
bottom drove the increase that the fixed income that Hispanic whites at $77,999 and the Child and De- the dozen years that it has
in the Gini index." many seniors are on didn't and Hispanics at $57,981. pendent Care Credit. The been calculated.q

Malcolm X becomes 1st Black honoree in Nebraska Hall of Fame

Fame. ily left for Milwaukee the nated for Nebraska's Hall of
The organization's commis- following year after threats Fame in 2004, but passed
sion selected the civil rights from the Ku Klux Klan. over by a commission
icon on Monday with a 4-3 At 20, he was convicted of made up solely of white
vote, edging out the late burglary in New York and men who instead selected
University of Nebraska ed- sentenced to nearly seven a mid-1900s U.S. senator
ucator and author Louise years in prison, where he who made a name for him-
Pound. converted to Islam and self with his campaign to
"Malcolm X used the lessons later changed his name. remove gay men from gov-
he learned early in life and He emerged as a fiery Na- ernment posts in the 1940s
his intellectual power, dedi- tion of Islam minister with a and 1950s.
cation and perseverance message that Black people The pick of Sen. Kenneth
in the fight for freedom should cast off white op- Wherry was later nixed be-
and equality for all during pression "by any means cause of an open-meet-
the civil rights movement necessary," before later ings violation.
in America," said commis- splitting from the Nation of Malcolm X was passed
Malcolm X speaks to reporters in Washington on May 16, 1963. sion chairman Ron Hull. "His Islam and renouncing ra- over again in 2007 for little-
Fifteen years after being rejected as too controversial, Malcolm
X has been inducted as the newest member of the Nebraska work and his legacy con- cial separatism. known botanist Charles
Hall of Fame. tinue to impact the citizens He was assassinated in Bessey.
Associated Press of the world." Manhattan's Audubon Each Nebraska Hall of
Malcolm X was born Mal- Ballroom by gunmen who Fame member is immor-
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Fif- Malcolm X is the first Black colm Little in Omaha, Ne- opened fire during a speak- talized with a bronze bust
teen years after being re- honoree to be inducted braska, in 1925 as the son of ing engagement. displayed in the state
jected as too controversial, into the Nebraska Hall of a Baptist preacher. His fam- The firebrand was first nomi- Capitol.q