State-by-State Summary of Senior Poverty

The supplemental poverty measure, a new alternative to measure senior poverty, takes government programs into account when determining poverty levels and breaks down how each government program affects the poverty rate. According to the supplemental poverty measure, approximately one in four seniors are living in poverty in Washington, D.C. and one in five seniors are living in poverty in California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Nevada, Georgia, and New York.   Read the Kaiser Family Foundation report. Read a Washington Post article on the report. Related articles Nearly 1-in-5 seniors who are hospitalized return to the hospital within 30 days.