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QUESTION: How many uninsured South Dakotans per county would be eligible for health insurance under Medicaid expansion and federal exchange subsidies?
ANSWER: Analysis of Census Bureau 2010 SAHIE data[1] (the … Read more
SD Budget & Policy Project analyzed Census Bureau 2010 SAHIE data to create county specific graphs illustrating how may uninsured South Dakotans are in each county and how many fall into income eligibility categories for health insurance under provisions of Medicaid Expansion and Federal exchange subsidies.
Link to data source: http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/data/interactive/index.html,http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/data/interactive/index.html… Read more
QUESTION: Which counties in South Dakota have uninsured residents who would be eligible for government health insurance coverage if South Dakota expands Medicaid?
ANSWER: All of them.
Check out SD B&PP analysis of Census Bureau 2010 SAHEI data[i] (the most recent available) detailing the number of … Read more
American Indian and Alaska Native Poverty Rate About 50 Percent in Rapid City, S.D., and About 30 Percent in Five Other Cities, Census Bureau Reports
The poverty rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives in Rapid City, S.D. (50.9 percent) was around three times the rate in Anchorage, Alaska … Read more
BENEFITS: The amount of benefits the household gets is called an allotment. The net monthly income of the household is multiplied by .3, and the result is subtracted from the MAXIMUM allotment for the household size to find the … Read more
In layman’s terms this means:
Like most state tax systems, South Dakota takes a much larger share from middle- and low-income families than from wealthy families. That’s according to the fourth edition of “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in … Read more
Low and Middle-Income South Dakotans Fall Further Behind Top Earners
The income gap between rich and poor widened at a faster pace in South Dakota than nearly any other state between the late 1990s and the mid-2000s, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and … Read more
New poverty measure shows 28,000 fewer South Dakotans in poverty
The official poverty rate in South Dakota averaged 14.5% from 2009 and 2011.
A new poverty rate released by the US Census Bureau – the Supplemental Poverty Measure – averaged 11%.
That is a decrease of about 3.5 percentage points … Read more
What does it mean when the Census Bureau announced on 9-20-12 that South Dakota’s real median household income for 2011 was $48,321 for 2011?
It means half of the household in South Dakota earned more than $48,321 and half earned less. We also learned from the American Community Survey (ACS) that … Read more
