Poverty In Minnesota Testimony to Legislative Commission To End Poverty In Minnesota By 2020 Tom Gillaspy, State Demographer October 3, 2007
Poverty Rates From Two Surveys Change Little From 2005 To 2006 Current Population Survey American Community Survey USMnUSMn %8.1%13.3%9.2% %8.2%13.3%9.8% Changes are not statistically significant at 90% confidence level
Addition Of Group Quarters Population Affects Poverty Estimates American Community Survey Population Base ACS Below Poverty CPS Below Poverty Household Population 5,025,400464,200422,000 Group Quarter Poverty Measured 27,30017,000__ GQ Poverty Not Measured 49,500__ Institutional 64,900__ 2006 CPS and ACS
Group Quarters And Poverty Measurement People living in these settings are included in the poverty measure Emergency & homeless shelters & transient quarters Group homes with 10 or more residents Work dorms, Job Corps and other vocational dorm settings Religious communities Military staff quarters Rooming and boarding houses Facilities for victims of natural disaster People living in these are not included in the poverty measure Institutions—prisons, nursing homes, etc College dorms Military barracks Unrelated children under age 15 in shelters
Minnesota Poverty Rate Is Typically Lower Than The Nation CPS poverty rate
Highest & Lowest Poverty Rate States 2006 Minnesota Statistically Tied With Six Other States 1.Mississippi 21.1% 2.D. C. 19.6% 3.Louisiana 19.0% 4.New Mexico 18.5% 5.West Virginia 17.3% 6.Arkansas 17.3% 7.Kentucky 17.0% 8.Oklahoma 17.0% 7.8% 1.Maryland 7.8% 8.0% 2.New Hampshire 8.0% 8.3% 3.Connecticut 8.3% 8.7% 4.New Jersey 8.7% 5.Hawaii 9.3% 6.Wyoming 9.4% 7.Virginia 9.6% 9.8% 8.MINNESOTA 9.8% 2006 ACS
Numbers of Poor & Near Poor Have Changed Little Since & 2000 Census & 2005 & 2006 ACS
While Some Nominal Differences In Poverty Rates Appear, Changes Are Not Statistically Significant After Accounting For Population Base 2006 ACS. Changes between 2005 and 2006 excluding group quarters population are not statistically Significant at the 90% confidence level
High Poverty For Children & Young Adults Rises Again Over Age Change Not Statistically Significant 2006 ACS. Changes 2005 to 2006 are not statistically significant at 90% confidence level