The U.S. official poverty rate fell 0.5 percentage point to a record low of 10.2% in 2025, leaving 34.5 million people below the poverty line, while real median household income rose 2.6% to a record $87,460, Census Bureau data showed. The decline was the third consecutive annual reduction, revising an earlier description of the result as a second straight decline. Child poverty fell to a record-low 13.4%, and poverty among Hispanic Americans reached a record-low 13.9%. Income gains were uneven: earnings rose 1.7% at the 90th percentile but showed no measurable gain at the 10th percentile. The Supplemental Poverty Measure was statistically unchanged at 13.1%, with out-of-pocket medical costs pushing about 7.7 million people below its threshold. The uninsured population was statistically unchanged at 26.7 million, or 7.9% of the population, while Medicaid enrollment declined by about 1.4 million people.