Data from the Census Bureau's just-released Current Population Reports for 2015 records a trifecta for the U.S. economy: incomes soaring (after years of stagnation and shrinkage), poverty reduced, health insurance rates rising.
A thought occurred to me while reading this part of economist Jared Bernstein's overview:
A thought occurred to me while reading this part of economist Jared Bernstein's overview:
The official poverty rate fell from 14.8 percent in 2014 to 13.5 percent last year, a decline of 3.5 million people in households whose incomes put them below the poverty threshold for their family type (the poverty threshold for a single parent with two children was around $19,000 in 2015).The thought: Families rising out of poverty could be pushing ACA marketplace enrollment from the bottom up, particularly in states that refused the ACA Medicaid expansion.
