💼🌊 Working, and Still Underwater: The Two Poverty Numbers That Don’t Agree
FACT: Two official-looking numbers describe Jackson County, and they do not agree. By the Census Bureau’s count, 10.6% of Jackson County’s people lived in poverty in the ACS 2024 five-year estimates — 15,949 people — against 13.5% of people statewide. By the survival-budget count, 41% of Jackson County’s households could not afford the basics in […]
