BACKGROUND:
The Census Bureau will release poverty, income, health insurance, and other 2024 data on September 9 and 11. CHN’s webinar, ahead of the release, will teach you how to find state and local as well as national data, to help you show the connection between federal and state policy choices and numbers of people in poverty or uninsured.
We know Congress and the President have made some policy choices that, if left unchanged, will sharply cut funding and benefits for basic needs programs. So it’s especially important to show how earlier policy improvements reduced poverty and the number of people without health insurance – we’ll show you how to make those points for your state, and how to make the connection to the dangers ahead.
Speakers include an expert panel with Christopher Wimer, Director, Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Danilo Trisi, Consultant, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Gina Plata-Nino, Interim SNAP Director, Food Research and Action Center. We’ll welcome Edwin Park, Research Professor at the Georgetown U. Center for Children and Families to talk about trends for the uninsured. And you’ll also get CHN’s Executive Director Deborah Weinstein’s annual hands-on, practical tips on exactly where to find the data you need in the Census Bureau releases showing poverty, with breakdowns by age, race/ethnicity, and disability, policies that can reduce poverty, and health insurance trends.
All registrants will receive the webinar recording and slides, as well as other resources in advance of the Census Bureau’s releases on Sept. 9 and 11. And you’ll also receive quick analyses of the new data after its release, including tables with breakdowns by state and congressional district, by age and race/ethnicity.
