Update: November 9, 2011

A Graphic View of Poverty in Oregon

As we point out in out latest blog post, more Americans lived in poverty in 2010 than was reported in the official poverty statistics, according to a new, Supplemental Poverty Measure released by the U.S. Census Bureau earlier this week. The supplemental measure did not include state-level data.

But even under the inadequate, official definition, poverty engulfs a large share of Oregonians. And the social tragedy that is poverty is getting worse.

OCPP has put together five charts that illustrate key, official poverty data for Oregon.

See A Graphic View of Poverty in Oregon. Click here for a pdf copy.

Meet Marielle

Marielle Vena, who is pursuing a graduate degree in Agricultural and Resource Economics and Public Policy at Oregon State University, is our fall research intern. Marielle graduated from the University of Massachussets Amherst in 2005 with a double major in Resource Economics and Italian Studies.