The share of Americans without health insurance rose for the first time in a dec...
WASHINGTON - The share of Americans without health insurance rose for the first time in a decade last year and U.S. household income hardly budged, according to a government report on Tuesday that laid bare issues that could be central to the U.S. presidential election next year.
But growth in household income, which includes earnings and all other sources of cash, largely stalled after three years of steady growth. Census officials said they could not readily identify the cause. Some of the largest jumps in the uninsured occurred among Hispanic children, among middle-class families with incomes well above the poverty line, and in electoral battlegrounds like Michigan and Ohio. The number of uninsured in those states rose by 25,000 and 58,000, respectively.
FILE PHOTO: Lead medical assistant Fengmei Lin administers a chickenpox vaccine to one-year-old Bella Huang at the International Community Health Services clinic in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo The new Census data raise questions about how strongly Trump’s economic policies have been felt among his political base.
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