Numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday give the first glimpse of the effect of the latest economic recession on poverty rates and employment in Kentucky and across the nation. “Across the nation, poverty has gone up to very high levels. Kentucky mirrors that trend,” said Ron Crouch, director of research and statistics for the state Education and Workforce Development Cabinet. Employment-population ratios, which measure the number of people in the workforce against the number of people in the state, have risen nearly 3 percentage points since 2005, according to numbers from the American Community Survey produced by the Census Bureau. Unemployment has actually dropped across the state in recent months, but the unemployment number doesn’t take into account long-term unemployed workers who aren’t actively seeking jobs. Poverty is up 1.3 percentage points in Kentucky from a year earlier, more than the national rate increase.
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