How Poor And Nonadults Spent Their Weeks Last Year

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Using the fresh Census data, we break down how poor and nonpoor adults spent their 52 weeks last year, on average.

As you can see, the poor tend to spend far fewer of their weeks working and more in a nonwork status, such as unemployed, disabled, studying, or doing unpaid care work. This should come as no surprise because it is finding yourself in one of those statuses that tends to make you poor. This just again drives home the point that if we want to really dramatically drop poverty rates, what we need to do is to build a welfare state that gets income to those in the various nonworking statuses.