title: Income stable, poverty up, numbers of Americans with and without health insurance rise.
abstract: In August 2004, the U.S. Census Bureau released a report on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States. It showed that, between 2002 and 2003, real median household income remained unchanged at $43,318; the official poverty rate rose from 12.1 to 12.5 percent; the number of people with health insurance increased by 1.0 million to 243.3 million; the number without such coverage rose by 1.4 million to 45.0 million; and the percentage of the nation's population without coverage grew from 15.2 to 15.6 percent.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008297:Male; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States