Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone report the US Census Report on Income and Poverty 2018 contains a lot of good news. Overall income between 2017 and 2018 rose 3.4%. The number of people who got full-time workers in 2018 increased by 2.3 million, which is very good news. The official poverty rate for 2018 11.8%, down .5% from 2017. For the first time in 11 years, the 2018 official poverty rate was significantly less than in 2007, the year before the most recent recession. Throughout the entire Obama Era, the poverty rate was never lower than it was in 2007, the year before he took office. Donald Trump reversed that in only 1.5 years.