WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) recently introduced the Poverty Statistics Enhancement Act, a bill that would instruct the United States Census Bureau to include an additional poverty metric in its annual reporting that considers a family's access to federal benefits when determining its income relative to the poverty line.
Kennedy penned this op-ed (https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/census-numbers-paint-a-misleading-picture-of-poverty-in-america/) in National Review to explain how the Census Bureau's current metrics paint a misleading picture of poverty in America by considering only wages and cash benefits, such as Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security...