U.S. tariffs could push 875,000 more Americans into poverty, Yale finds
2025-09-14 08:24:53 source：CGTN
September 13, 2025
U.S. tariff hikes are reducing household purchasing power and will push hundreds of thousands more Americans into poverty, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University.
A report released by the lab this week estimated that the new 2025 tariffs will increase the number of Americans living under the poverty line by between 650,000 and 875,000 – roughly 0.2 to 0.3 percent of the U.S. population – depending on the poverty measure used.
There are two major measures of poverty in the United States produced by the Census Bureau. The first is the Official Poverty Measure, a long-running measure of poverty that compares cash income to an inflation-indexed threshold. The other is the Supplemental Poverty Measure, a more comprehensive measure that takes into account more information on household resources and the cost of living.
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