Number of Americans without health insurance drops by 8.8 million
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 10:36 AM EDT
The number of people without health insurance dropped last year by 8.8 million, to a total of 33 million, but there was no statistically significant change in income for the typical American household, the Obama administration said Wednesday.
Median household income in the United States was $53,660 last year, the Census Bureau reported.
In addition, it said, there was no meaningful change in the official poverty rate — 14.8 percent in 2014. About 46.7 million people were in poverty, the bureau said.
This was the fourth consecutive year in which the number of people in poverty was not statistically different from the official estimate for the prior year.
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